The two-fluid dynamics and energetics of the asymmetric magnetic reconnection in laboratory and space plasmas

Magnetic energy in the plasma is transferred into particle energy by magnetic reconnection. Here the authors show the two-fluid dynamics of asymmetric magnetic reconnection in two different spatial scales of plasma, namely laboratory and astrophysical plasma.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: M. Yamada, L.-J. Chen, J. Yoo, S. Wang, W. Fox, J. Jara-Almonte, H. Ji, W. Daughton, A. Le, J. Burch, B. Giles, M. Hesse, T. Moore, R. Torbert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07680-2