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<b>One-way Ponderomotive Barrier in a Uniform Magnetic Field</b>
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<b>Authors:</b> I.Y. Dodin and N.J. Fisch
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<b>Date of PPPL Report:</b> February 2005
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<b>Submitted to:</b> Physical Review E</p>


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The possibility of an asymmetric ponderomotive barrier in a nonuniform dc magnetic field by high-frequency radiation near the cyclotron resonance for selected plasma species was contemplated in Physics of Plasmas <b>11</b> (November 2004) 5046-5064. Here we show that a similar one-way barrier, which reflects particles incident from one side while transmitting those incident from the opposite side, can be produced also in a uniform magnetic field, entirely due to inhomogeneity of high-frequency drive.



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