"Plasmas are many-body systems, with enough mobile charged particles to cause some collective behavior ." [M.S. Murillo and J.C.Weisheit Physics Reports 302, 1-65 (1998)].
In the above definition what is meant by "collective behavior" ?
[Physics] meant by “collective behavior” in the definition of plasma
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Best Answer
Collective behavior in Plasmas is the phenomenon where the way the plasma as a whole reacts/behaves is dependent on the behavior of each and every particle in the plasma. The overall behavior is the sum of the individual particles' behavior.