Kineclinic magnetogenesis in relativistic collisionless plasmas
Plasma Physics
2026-01-12 v1
Abstract
The relativistic momentum equation of a collisionless plasma is reformulated to describe the time evolution of canonical vorticity. Compared to the non-relativistic counterpart, an additional source term for canonical vorticity is identified, which embodies the misalignment between the fluid momentum and fluid velocity gradients. This kineclinic term breaks the frozen-in condition of canonical vorticity, thereby enabling generation or dissipation of magnetic fields and vorticity. We verify the role of this effect through particle-in-cell simulations of a modified Beltrami flow. Kineclinicity should be finite for all relativistic plasma systems due to the general lack of a functional relationship between fluid momentum and fluid velocity.
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@article{arxiv.2601.05718,
title = {Kineclinic magnetogenesis in relativistic collisionless plasmas},
author = {Modhuchandra Laishram and Suresh Basnet and Young Dae Yoon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.05718},
year = {2026}
}