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Abstract
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A coupled nonlinear pseudoforce system is derived from hydrodynamic equations for the nonlinear
electron plasma oscillations in an electron-ion plasma with arbitrarily degenerate electron fluid in a
background fixed ion potential. The dynamics of the fully nonlinear electron plasma excitations are
studied using this generalized coupled pseudoforce model including the damping and driving pseudoforce elements. The fully nonlinear plasma oscillations are shown to be of quite different nature
in the extreme classical and quantum limits. In particular, high frequency quantum oscillations due
to electron tunneling effect modulates the ordinary large amplitude low frequency periodic
Langmuir excitations in the quantum plasma regime. It is shown that such characteristic quantum
oscillations appear due to the electron wavefunction overlap which also appear on the quantum
shock wave structures. It is found that the stimulation of dense plasmas with the driving frequency
matching that of characteristic quantum oscillations leads to the chaotic behavior of the electron
fluid. The presented coupled pseudoforce theory can be used to investigate a large number of
interesting nonlinear phenomena such as the quantum electron fluid chaos and turbulence, autoresonance phenomenon, quantum harmonic generation, nonlinear resonances, and bistability of
quantum electron plasma oscillations.
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