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Effects of Multi-scale Coupling on Particle Acceleration and Energy Partition in Magnetic Reconnection
Alexander Velberg, Adam Stanier, Xiaocan Li +3
The interplay between kinetic and macroscopic scales during magnetic reconnection is investigated using particle-in-cell simulations of magnetic island coalescence in the strongly-…
Suppression of inverse magnetic energy transfer in collisionless marginally magnetized plasmas
Zhuo Liu, Muni Zhou, Nuno F. G. Loureiro
We investigate the inverse cascade of magnetic energy in decaying, collisionless plasmas with moderate to high- values via first-principles numerical simulations and analytical…
Role of ion acoustic instability in magnetic reconnection
Dion Li, Zhuo Liu, Nuno F. Loureiro
We report on a first-principles numerical study of magnetic reconnection in plasmas with different initial ion-to-electron temperature ratios. In cases where this ratio is signific…
Electron-only reconnection and inverse magnetic-energy transfer at sub-ion scales
Zhuo Liu, Caio Silva, Lucio M. Milanese +3
We derive, and validate numerically, an analytical model for electron-only magnetic reconnection applicable to strongly magnetized plasmas. Our model predicts sub-ion-scale reconne…
A transport-like approach to turbulence-mediated magnetic reconnection
Nuno F. Loureiro
A transport-like framework for the study of magnetic reconnection mediated by self-driven turbulence is proposed, based on timescale separation between the reconnection time and th…