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Dimensional measures of generalized entropy
Vladimir Zhdankin
Entropy is useful in statistical problems as a measure of irreversibility, randomness, mixing, dispersion, and number of microstates. However, there remains ambiguity over the prec…
Magnetogenesis in a collisionless plasma: from Weibel instability to turbulent dynamo
Muni Zhou, Vladimir Zhdankin, Matthew W. Kunz +2
We report on a first-principles numerical and theoretical study of plasma dynamo in a fully kinetic framework. By applying an external mechanical force to an initially unmagnetized…
Particle acceleration by magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability: mechanism for flares in black-hole accretion flows
Vladimir Zhdankin, Bart Ripperda, Alexander A. Philippov
We study the magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability in relativistic collisionless plasma, as an astrophysical process for nonthermal particle acceleration. We consider dense plasma o…