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Plasmoid-driven magnetic reconnection in elongated current sheets is suspected to be an ubiquitous phenomenon in space and astrophysical plasmas, but the mechanisms driving its onset and dynamics are still debated. Deciphering the physical…

Magnetohydrodynamic simulations have shown that a non-unique critical Lundquist number $S_c$ exists, hovering around $S_c \sim 10^4$, above which threshold Sweet-Parker type stationary reconnecting configurations become unstable to a fast…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-06-06 Chen Shi , Marco Velli , Anna Tenerani

We investigate the nonlinear formation of plasmoids in 2D low-beta current sheets through the interplay between the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) and the lower-hybrid drift instability (LHDI). Using a hybrid kinetic-gyrokinetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 S. Thatikonda , F. N. De Oliveira-Lopes , A. Mustonen , K. Pommois , D. Told , F. Jenko

Non-collisional current sheets that form during the nonlinear development of magnetic reconnection are characterized by a small thickness, of the order of the electron skin depth. They can become unstable to the formation of plasmoids,…

Understanding of fundamental physics of plasmonic instabilities is the key issue for the design of a new generation of compact electronic devices required for numerous THz applications. Variable width plasmonic devices have emerged as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 G. R. Aizin , J. Mikalopas , M. Shur

Recently, secondary island formation due to the tearing instability of the Sweet-Parker current sheet was identified as a possible mechanism that can lead to fast reconnection (less sensitive dependence on Lundquist number $S$) both in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-06 C. S. Ng , S. Ragunathan

Sweet-Parker current sheets in high Lundquist number plasmas are unstable to tearing, suggesting they will not form in physical systems. Understanding magnetic reconnection thus requires study of the stability of a current sheet as it…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 Elizabeth A. Tolman , Nuno F. Loureiro , Dmitri A. Uzdensky

We investigate the onset of the classical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) tearing instability (TI) and focus on non-modal (transient) growth rather than the tearing mode. With the help of pseudospectral theory, the operators of the linear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 David MacTaggart

The plasmoid instability may lead to fast magnetic reconnection through long current sheets(CS). It is well known that large-Reynolds-number plasmas easily become turbulent. We address the question whether turbulence enhances the energy…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-05-03 Fabien Widmer , Jörg Büchner , Nobumitsu Yokoi

In the present paper which is a sequel to [N.B. Volkov and A.M. Iskoldsky The dynamics of vortex structures and states of current: 1;[1]], the dynamics of non-equilibrium phase transitions and states of current in electrophysical systems…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 N. B. Volkov , A. M. Iskoldsky

In this study, a new linear theory of tearing instability is shown, where the modified LSC (Loureiro, Schekochihin, and Cowley) theory [36] developed from the original LSC theory [8] is extended from inviscid-resistive MHD to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-05 Tohru Shimizu

In three-dimensional electromagnetic configurations that result from unstable resistive tearing modes particles can efficiently be accelerated to relativistic energies. To prove this resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations are used as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Christoph Nodes , Guido T. Birk , Harald Lesch , R. Schopper

The parametric excitation of spin waves by coherent surface acoustic waves is demonstrated experimentally in metallic magnetic thin film structures. The involved magnon modes are analyzed with micro-focused Brillouin light scattering…

The Sweet-Parker layer in a system that exceeds a critical value of the Lundquist number ($S$) is unstable to the plasmoid instability. In this paper, a numerical scaling study has been done with an island coalescing system driven by a low…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Yi-Min Huang , A. Bhattacharjee

We theoretically demonstrate that dc electron flow across the junction of two-dimensional electron systems leads to excitation of edge magnetoplasmons. The threshold current for such plasmon excitation does not depend on contact effects and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-09 Aleksandr S. Petrov , Dmitry Svintsov

We study the time-dependent formation and evolution of a current sheet (CS) in a magnetized, collisionless, high-beta plasma using hybrid-kinetic particle-in-cell simulations. An initially tearing-stable Harris sheet is frozen into a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-04 Himawan W. Winarto , Matthew W. Kunz

Direct current in confined two-dimensional (2d) electron systems can become unstable with respect to the excitation of plasmons. Numerous experiments and simulations hint that structural asymmetry somehow promotes plasmon generation, but a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Aleksandr S. Petrov , Dmitry Svintsov

The accurate calculation of excited state properties of interacting electrons in the condensed phase is an immense challenge in computational physics. Here, we use state-of-the-art equation-of-motion coupled-cluster theory with single and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-07-10 Alan M. Lewis , Timothy C. Berkelbach

Several energetic disturbances have been identified as triggers of the large-amplitude oscillations (LAOs) in prominences. However, the mechanisms for LAOs excitation are not well understood. We aim to study these mechanisms, performing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-24 Valeriia Liakh , Manuel Luna , Elena Khomenko

Dynamic mitigation is presented for filamentation instability and magnetic reconnection in a plasm driven by a wobbling electron sheet current. The wobbling current introduces an oscillating perturbation and smooths the perturbation. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-01-21 Yan-Jun Gu , Shigeo Kawata , Sergei V. Bulanov