The nonlinear dynamics of filamentation instability in a weakly ionized current-carrying plasma in the diffusion frequency region is studied using particle in cell simulation. The effects of electron thermal motion and ion-neutral collision on the evolution of this instability in the nonlinear stage of the filaments coalescence are discussed. It is found that the coalescence of the current filaments is enhanced by increasing the temperature and is delayed by increasing the collision frequency.

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The dispersion relation of electrostatic waves in a magnetized complex plasma under gravity is presented. It is assumed that the waves propagate perpendicular to the external fields. The effects of weak electric field, neutral drag force, and ion drag force are also taken into account. The dispersion relation is numerically examined in an appropriate parameter space in which the gravity plays the dominant role in the dynamics of magnetized microparticles. The numerical results show that an unstable low frequency drift wave can be developed in the long wavelength limit. This unstable mode is transformed into an aperiodic stationary structure at a cut-off wavenumber. Furthermore, the influence of the external fields on the dispersion properties is analyzed. It is shown that the instability is essentially due to the E×B drift motion of plasma particles. However, in the absence of weak electric field, the g×B drift motion of microparticles can cause the instability in a wide range of wavenumbers. It is also found that by increasing the magnetic field strength, the wave frequency is first increased and then decreased. This behaviour is explained by the existence of an extremum point in the dust magneto-gravitational drift velocity.

The charged particle beams, such as electrons, ions, and plasma compression flow, have received considerable attention due to their applications in science and technology; therefore, studying the stability of these beams is of particular importance. Here, we examine theoretically the stability properties of a cold relativistic electron beam with a transverse velocity shear and non-uniform density profile. We consider a plane-parallel beam propagating along an external magnetic field and evaluate its macroscopic equilibrium state. We derive the dispersion relation of the slipping instability based on the linear electrodynamics of an inhomogeneous plasma and kinetic theory. In this model, the oscillation spectrum and the growth rate are derived by using the eikonal equation and the quasi-classical quantization rule. A linear velocity shear and a non-linear density gradient are assumed. Furthermore, we analyze numerically the dispersion relation of the slipping instability. The impacts of the inhomogeneity parameter and the relativistic factor on the properties of the slipping instability are discussed.

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