Magnetic reconnection in the era of exascale computing and multiscale experiments

H Ji, W Daughton, J Jara-Almonte, A Le… - Nature Reviews …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Astrophysical plasmas have the remarkable ability to preserve magnetic topology, which
inevitably gives rise to the accumulation of magnetic energy within stressed regions …

Magnetohydrodynamic and kinetic scale turbulence in the near-Earth space plasmas: a (short) biased review

F Sahraoui, L Hadid, S Huang - Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics, 2020‏ - Springer
The near-Earth space is a unique laboratory to explore turbulence and energy dissipation
processes in magnetized plasmas thanks to the availability of high-quality data from various …

MHD turbulence: a biased review

AA Schekochihin - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2022‏ - cambridge.org
This review of scaling theories of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence aims to put the
developments of the last few years in the context of the canonical time line (from Kolmogorov …

Electron and proton heating in transrelativistic magnetic reconnection

ME Rowan, L Sironi, R Narayan - The Astrophysical Journal, 2017‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Hot collisionless accretion flows, such as the one in Sgr A* at our Galactic center, provide a
unique setting for the investigation of magnetic reconnection. Here protons are …

Evidence for electron Landau dam** in space plasma turbulence

CHK Chen, KG Klein, GG Howes - Nature communications, 2019‏ - nature.com
How turbulent energy is dissipated in weakly collisional space and astrophysical plasmas is
a major open question. Here, we present the application of a field-particle correlation …

Magnetic reconnection as a driver for a sub-ion-scale cascade in plasma turbulence

L Franci, SS Cerri, F Califano, S Landi… - The Astrophysical …, 2017‏ - iopscience.iop.org
A new path for the generation of a sub-ion-scale cascade in collisionless space and
astrophysical plasma turbulence, triggered by magnetic reconnection, is uncovered by …

Disruption of Alfvénic turbulence by magnetic reconnection in a collisionless plasma

A Mallet, AA Schekochihin… - Journal of Plasma …, 2017‏ - cambridge.org
We calculate the disruption scale, when this range exists. Such a steep 'transition range'is
sometimes observed in short intervals of solar-wind turbulence. The onset of collisionless …

Phase mixing versus nonlinear advection in drift-kinetic plasma turbulence

AA Schekochihin, JT Parker, EG Highcock… - Journal of Plasma …, 2016‏ - cambridge.org
A scaling theory of long-wavelength electrostatic turbulence in a magnetised, weakly
collisional plasma (eg drift-wave turbulence driven by ion temperature gradients) is …

Electron heating in kinetic-Alfvén-wave turbulence

M Zhou, Z Liu, NF Loureiro - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2023‏ - pnas.org
We report analytical and numerical investigations of subion-scale turbulence in low-beta
plasmas using a rigorous reduced kinetic model. We show that efficient electron heating …

Fully kinetic versus reduced-kinetic modeling of collisionless plasma turbulence

D Grošelj, SS Cerri, AB Navarro… - The Astrophysical …, 2017‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We report the results of a direct comparison between different kinetic models of collisionless
plasma turbulence in two spatial dimensions. The models considered include a first …