Magnetic island merger as a mechanism for inverse magnetic energy transfer

2019/01/08 by Muni Zhou, Pallavi Bhat, Nuno F. Loureiro +1 · 34 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Energy (signal processing) #Energy transfer #Inverse #Inverse problem #Magnetic confinement fusion research #Magnetic energy #Magnetic field #Magnetic properties of thin films #Mechanism (biology) #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #astro-ph.HE #physics.plasm-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevresearch.1.012004

published in Physical Review Research 1(1) (American Physical Society) · 6 pages, 5 figures, submitted for publication

arxiv created 2019/01/08 · openalex created_date 2019/01/25 · openalex publication_date 2019/08/09 · arxiv updated 2019/08/14 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel, reconnection-based, solvable analytical model for the inverse transfer of magnetic energy, a longstanding problem with far reaching implications in galactic magnetogenesis and high-energy emission in gamma-ray bursts.

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