Condensate formation in collisionless plasma
Plasma Physics
2021-07-05 v2 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Superconductivity
Space Physics
Abstract
Particle condensates in general magnetic mirror geometries in high temperature plasma may be caused by a discrete resonance with thermal ion-acoustic background noise near mirror points. The resonance breaks the bounce symmetry, temporally locking the particles to the resonant wavelength. The relevant correlation lengths are the Debye length in parallel direction and the ion gyroradius in perpendicular direction.
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@article{arxiv.2105.11212,
title = {Condensate formation in collisionless plasma},
author = {R. A. Treumann and Wolfgang Baumjohann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.11212},
year = {2021}
}
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19 pages, 3 figures, unformatted printed version