Spontaneous generation of a temperature anisotropy in a strongly coupled magnetized plasma
Plasma Physics
2017-01-25 v1
Abstract
A magnetic field was recently shown to enhance field-parallel heat conduction in a strongly correlated plasma whereas cross-field conduction is reduced. Here we show that in such plasmas, the magnetic field has the additional effect of inhibiting the isotropization process between field-parallel and cross-field temperature components thus leading to the emergence of strong and long-lived temperature anisotropies when the plasma is locally perturbed. An extended heat equation is shown to describe this process accurately.
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@article{arxiv.1611.01397,
title = {Spontaneous generation of a temperature anisotropy in a strongly coupled magnetized plasma},
author = {T. Ott and M. Bonitz and P. Hartmann and Z. Donkó},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.01397},
year = {2017}
}