Role of electron physics in the development of turbulent magnetic reconnection in collisionless plasmas
Abstract
Magnetic reconnection is important to the dynamics of many astrophysical and fusion plasmas but our understanding of it is incomplete. Petaflop-scale simulations of the evolution of turbulent magnetic reconnection in a three-dimensional plasma indicate that it proceeds in a way that is dramatically different from classical theory.
- Publication:
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Nature Physics
- Pub Date:
- July 2011
- DOI:
- 10.1038/nphys1965
- Bibcode:
- 2011NatPh...7..539D