Relativistic Scaling and Magnetization-Current Feedback in Stern Gerlach-Modified Pair-Plasma Reconnection: SpinPIC2D Validation and Nonlinear Regimes
Abstract
We investigate the relativistic scaling and electromagnetic feedback of Stern--Gerlach (SG) force driven spin transport in pair-plasma reconnection with SpinPIC2D. The model advances relativistic proper momentum and magnetic BMT spin precession, applies the SG force, deposits spin magnetization, and includes in Ampere's law. In a weak-seed scan at fixed , the normalized global magnetic flux-growth remains near the classical control-run for , is at , and reaches approximately and at and 1, respectively over . Because in the 2.5-D geometry, the direct -directed SG term vanishes and the enhancement is indirect: sheet-normal SG sorting restructures branch-resolved electron and positron velocity distributions which results in changes in pressure moments and generates a layered magnetization current. Along a fixed- family, increasing reduces and suppresses branch sorting, whereas the matched-control flux-growth enhancement remains positive for . Retuning to hold does not preserve nonlinear similarity: both the coupling and increase with , and the case develops a multi-X-line state. Thus orders the onset of SG-modified reconnection, while the nonlinear response also depends on the absolute spin coupling and magnetization-current amplitude.
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@article{arxiv.2607.15921,
title = {Relativistic Scaling and Magnetization-Current Feedback in Stern Gerlach-Modified Pair-Plasma Reconnection: SpinPIC2D Validation and Nonlinear Regimes},
author = {K. Nykyri},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.15921},
year = {2026}
}
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This preprint contains 8 figures and 13 pages in the main text and 19 pages of supplementary material detailing the SpinPIC2D-code and its validation. This paper has been submitted to Physical Review E and is a companion paper to a submitted letter which is posted here https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16243