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Spontaneous magnetization of collisionless plasma through the action of a shear flow
Muni Zhou, Vladimir Zhdankin, Matthew W. Kunz +2
We study in a fully kinetic framework the generation of seed magnetic fields through the Weibel instability driven in an initially unmagnetized plasma by a large-scale shear force.…
Generalized entropy production in collisionless plasma flows and turbulence
Vladimir Zhdankin
Collisionless plasmas exhibit nonthermal particle distributions after being energized; as a consequence, they enter a state of low Boltzmann-Gibbs (BG) entropy relative to the ther…
Kinetic Simulations of Imbalanced Turbulence in a Relativistic Plasma: Net Flow and Particle Acceleration
Amelia Hankla, Vladimir Zhdankin, Gregory Werner +2
Turbulent high-energy astrophysical systems often feature asymmetric energy injection: for instance, Alfven waves propagating from an accretion disk into its corona. Such systems a…
Particle energization in relativistic plasma turbulence: solenoidal versus compressive driving
Vladimir Zhdankin
Many high-energy astrophysical systems contain magnetized collisionless plasmas with relativistic particles, in which turbulence can be driven by an arbitrary mixture of solenoidal…