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Finite Larmor radius effect (k⊥​ρs​)

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Modification of the plasma response because particles sample fields around a finite cyclotron orbit. Effects become order one at k⊥​ρs​=O(1); even at k⊥​ρs​≪1, the leading polarization correction can be essential to a slow dispersion relation.

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