The Reversibility Of Magnetic Reconnection
arXiv:2103.16393 · doi:10.1063/5.0050575
Abstract
The reversibility of the transfer of energy from the magnetic field to the surrounding plasma during magnetic reconnection is examined. Trajectories of test particles in an analytic model of the fields demonstrate that irreversibility is associated with separatrix crossings and regions of weaker magnetic field. Inclusion of a guide field increases the degree of reversibility. Full kinetic simulations with a particle-in-cell code support these results and demonstrate that while time-reversed simulations at first "un-reconnect", they eventually evolve into a reconnecting state.
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