Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Self-consistent kinetic model of nested electron- and ion-scale magnetic cavities in space plasmas

  • Jing-Huan Li,
  • Fan Yang,
  • Xu-Zhi Zhou,
  • Qiu-Gang Zong,
  • Anton V. Artemyev,
  • Robert Rankin,
  • Quanqi Shi,
  • Shutao Yao,
  • Han Liu,
  • Jiansen He,
  • Zuyin Pu,
  • Chijie Xiao,
  • Ji Liu,
  • Craig Pollock,
  • Guan Le,
  • James L. Burch

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19442-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Magnetic cavities play important roles in the energy cascade, conversion and dissipation in turbulent plasmas. Here, the authors show a theoretical insight into magnetic cavities by deriving a self-consistent, kinetic theory of these coherent structures.