Abstract
A macroscopic Coulomb system of identical charged particles with or without a compensating background charge can evolve maintaining spatial homogeneity and isotropy that mimic the cosmological evolution of a universe with repulsive gravity. Here we study dynamics of small perturbations on the background of the corresponding Hubble flow by analyzing its normal modes of vibrations. Arbitrary disturbance of the flow can be resolved into two electroacoustic, two vortical, and one entropic modes whose dynamics is investigated. Specifically, in the zero pressure or long-wavelength limits perturbations of density and velocity evolve in a manner that is independent of the form of the initial disturbance. The same conclusion applies to vortical perturbations of the velocity for arbitrary pressure while entropic perturbations are advected by the Hubble flow. Without the background charge the underlying Hubble flow describes a Coulomb explosion whose stability with respect to small disturbances is also demonstrated.
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