2 papers
physics.plasm-ph2026
Are the tearing and the Weibel instabilities the same?
K. M. Schoeffler, H. Aravindakshan, F. Pucci +1
The tearing instability, which extracts free energy from a magnetic field gradient, and the Weibel instability, which draws free energy from temperature anisotropies, appear at fir…
physics.plasm-ph2024
Particle-in-cell simulations of the tearing instability for relativistic pair plasmas
K. M. Schoeffler, B. Eichmann, F. Pucci +1
Two-dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations explore the collisionless tearing instability developing in a Harris equilibrium configuration in a pair (electron-positron) plas…