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Magnetic field line reconnection is a universal plasma process responsible for the magnetic field topology change and magnetic field energy dissipation into charged particle heating and acceleration. In many systems, the conditions leading…

We perform a two-dimensional simulation by using an electromagnetic hybrid code to study the formation of slow-mode shocks in collisionless magnetic reconnection in low beta plasmas, and we focus on the relation between the formation of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Katsuaki Higashimori , Masahiro Hoshino

We propose a new mechanism to explain the radio Arc and threads in the Galactic Center by current sheets produced by local magnetic shears due to interaction of a moving cloud and the vertical field based on three-dimensional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Yoshiaki Sofue , Hiromitsu Kigure , Kazunari Shibata

Discharges with crossed electric and magnetic fields are known to develop instabilities that are crucial in the transport of charged particles. Sputtering magnetrons are no exception. While most recent studies focused on traveling…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 André Anders , Pavel Ni , Joakim Andersson

Particle in cell (PIC) simulations of collisionless magnetic reconnection are presented that demonstrate that the electron dissipation region develops a distinct two-scale structure along the outflow direction. The length of the electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. A. Shay , J. F. Drake , M. Swisdak

Foreshock transients upstream of the Earth's bow shock, such as foreshock bubbles and hot flow anomalies, are often characterized by reduced-density cores and strong plasma fluctuations. These conditions provide environments where…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 Runyi Liu , Terry Liu , Xin An , Vassilis Angelopoulos , Xiaofei Shi

We report a unique conjugate observation of fast flows and associated current sheet disturbances in the near-Earth magnetotail by MMS (Magnetospheric Multiscale) and Cluster preceding a positive bay onset of a small substorm at ~14:10 UT,…

Magnetic reconnection X-lines have been observed to be more common duskward of midnight. Thin current sheets have also been postulated to be a necessary precondition for reconnection onset. We take advantage of the MMS tetrahedral formation…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-12-10 A. J. Rogers , C. J. Farrugia , R. B. Torbert , T. J. Rogers

In this paper, by performing a two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation, we investigate magnetic reconnection in the downstream of a quasi-perpendicular shock. The shock is nonstationary, and experiences a cyclic reformation. At the…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Quanming Lu , Zhongwei Yang , Huanyu Wang , Rongsheng Wang , Kai Huang , San Lu , Shui Wang

We describe magnetic reconnection experiments using a new, pulsed-power driven experimental platform in which the inflows are super-sonic but sub-Alfv\'enic.The intrinsically magnetised plasma flows are long lasting, producing a…

Using small-angle neutron scattering (SANS), we investigate the deformation of the magnetic skyrmion lattice in bulk single-crystalline MnSi under electric current flow. A significant broadening of the skyrmion-lattice-reflection peaks was…

The influence of a spin-polarized current on long ferromagnetic nanostripes is studied numerically. The current flows perpendicularly to the stripe. The study is based on the Landau-Lifshitz phenomenological equation with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Oleksii M. Volkov , Volodymyr P. Kravchuk , Denis D. Sheka , Franz G. Mertens , Yuri Gaididei

We study the critical current of a S/F-I-N/S tunnel structure - a proximity coupled superconductor (S) with thin ferromagnetic (F) and nonmagnetic (N) metals separated by an insulating (I) barrier - in an external magnetic field. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Krivoruchko , E. A. Koshina

We present high resolution 2D and 3D simulations of magnetized decaying turbulence in relativistic resistive magneto-hydrodynamics. The simulations show dynamic formation of large scale intermittent long-lived current sheets being disrupted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Alexander Chernoglazov , Bart Ripperda , Alexander A. Philippov

A variety of kinetic waves develop in the solar wind. The relationship between these waves and larger-scale structures, such as current sheets and ongoing turbulence remain a topic of investigation. Similarly, the instabilities producing…

Magnetic holes (MHs) are coherent structures associated with strong magnetic field depressions in magnetized plasmas. They are observed in many astrophysical environments at a wide range of scales but their origin is still under debate. In…

We present 1.5D Vlasov code simulations of the dynamics of electron holes in non-uniform magnetic and electric fields typical of current sheets and, particularly, of the Earth's magnetotail current sheet. The simulations show that spatial…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Pavel Shustov , Ilya V. Kuzichev , Ivan Y. Vasko , Anton V. Artemyev , Andrew J. Gerrard

In the paper by B\'arta et al. (arXive:astro-ph:/1011.4035, 2010) the authors addressed some open questions of the CSHKP scenario of solar flares by means of high-resolution MHD simulations. They focused, in particular, on the problem of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-17 Miroslav Bárta , Jörg Büchner , Marian Karlický , Pavel Kotrc

We consider fermions in one-dimensional superlattices (SL's), modeled by site-dependent Hubbard-U couplings arranged in a repeated pattern of repulsive (i.e., U>0) and free (U=0) sites. Density Matrix Renormalization Group (DMRG)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Andre L Malvezzi , Thereza Paiva , Raimundo R dos Santos

During the 23 April 2023 geospace storm, we observed chorus wave-driven, energetic particle precipitation on closed magnetic field lines in the dayside magnetosphere. Simultaneously and in the ionosphere's bottom-side, we observed…