Lessons on collisionless reconnection from quantum fluids

Magnetic reconnection in space plasmas remains a challenge in physics in that the phenomenon is associated with the breakdown of frozen-in magnetic field in a collisionless medium. Such a topology change can also be found in superfluidity, known as the quantum vortex reconnection. We give a plasma p...

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Main Authors: Yasuhito eNarita, Wolfgang eBaumjohann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Physics
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphy.2014.00076/full