 Plasma wave-breaking field (source code)

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= Plasma wave-breaking field
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The cold nonrelativistic <plasma> field scale $E_0=m_ec\omega_p/e$. It provides an order-of-magnitude density-gradient relation, not a complete nonlinear or relativistic wave-breaking criterion.

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