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First-Principles Theory of the Rate of Magnetic Reconnection in Magnetospheric and Solar Plasmas
Yi-Hsin Liu, Paul Cassak, Xiaocan Li +3
The rate of magnetic reconnection is of the utmost importance in a variety of processes because it controls, for example, the rate energy is released in solar flares, the speed of…
The Acceleration of Charged Particles and Formation of Power-law Energy Spectra in Nonrelativistic Magnetic Reconnection
Xiaocan Li, Fan Guo, Yi-Hsin Liu
Magnetic reconnection is a primary driver of particle acceleration processes in space and astrophysical plasmas. Understanding how particles are accelerated and the resulting parti…
Energy Dissipation and Entropy in Collisionless Plasma
Senbei Du, Gary P. Zank, Fan Guo +1
It is well known that collisionless systems are dissipation free from the perspective of particle collision and thus conserve entropy. On the other hand, processes such as magnetic…
Influence of 3D plasmoid dynamics on the transition from collisional to kinetic reconnection
A. Stanier, W. Daughton, A. Le +2
Within the resistive magnetohydrodynamic model, high-Lundquist number reconnection layers are unstable to the plasmoid instability, leading to a turbulent evolution where the recon…
Particle acceleration in kinetic simulations of non-relativistic magnetic reconnection with different ion-electron mass ratio
Xiaocan Li, Fan Guo, Hui Li
By means of fully kinetic particle-in-cell simulations, we study whether the proton-to-electron mass ratio influences the energy spectrum and underlying acceleration mech…