Talk:Landau damping

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Wrong

Be careful when describing Landau damping. It has nothing to do with particles trapped in the plasma, but with the energy transfer between the field and the plasma itself. It is a linear phenomenon that occurs because of phase mixing of many modes. This is not clearly stated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.180.174.115 (talk) 12:41, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"" "In a collisionless plasma the distribution function is often taken to be a Maxwellin" -- this line sounds weird. A collisional plasma relaxes to a Maxwellian, a collisionless plasma allows for non-Maxwellian distribution functions.

Caglioti and Maffei

The reference [8] was added to this article using an IP address from University of Roma which is the affiliation of the authors. The paper is rarely cited. Does this paper contains significant results which should be mentioned by Wikipedia?

[8] Caglioti, E. and Maffei, C. "Time asymptotics for solutions of Vlasov-Poisson equation in a circle", J. Statist. Phys. 92, 1-2, 301-323 (1998) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.171.41.142 (talk) 00:30, 8 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]