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Relativistic Scaling and Magnetization-Current Feedback in Stern Gerlach-Modified Pair-Plasma Reconnection: SpinPIC2D Validation and Nonlinear Regimes

Plasma Physics 2026-07-17 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

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 JM=×M\mathbf J_M=\nabla\times\mathbf M in Ampere's law. In a weak-seed scan at fixed γtr=2\gamma_{\rm tr}=2, the normalized global magnetic flux-growth remains near the classical control-run for Ξ0.1\Xi\le0.1, is 0.0160.016 at Ξ=0.4\Xi=0.4, and reaches approximately 0.120.12 and 0.250.25 at Ξ=0.7\Xi=0.7 and 1, respectively over 3t/τsp73\le t/\tau_{\rm sp}\le7. Because /y=0\partial/\partial y=0 in the 2.5-D geometry, the direct yy-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-χsim\chi_{\rm sim} family, increasing γtr\gamma_{\rm tr} reduces Ξ\Xi and suppresses branch sorting, whereas the matched-control flux-growth enhancement remains positive for γtr=2,3,5\gamma_{\rm tr}=2,3,5. Retuning χsim\chi_{\rm sim} to hold Ξ=1\Xi=1 does not preserve nonlinear similarity: both the coupling and JM,yJ_{M,y} increase with γtr\gamma_{\rm tr}, and the γtr=5\gamma_{\rm tr}=5 case develops a multi-X-line state. Thus Ξ\Xi 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}
}

Comments

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