Negative temperature states for the two-dimensional guiding-centre plasma
- 1 August 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Plasma Physics
- Vol. 10 (1), 107-121
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022377800007686
Abstract
Theoretical development and numerical simulation of the two-dimensional electrostatic guiding-centre plasma with positive total interaction energy are presented. Equilibrium statistical mechanics predicts that no spatially homogeneous thermal equilibrium state exists for this system. This non-existence is associated with the phenomenon of ‘negative temperatures’. Quasi-stable, spatially inhomogeneous states are shown to form, and are characterized by macroscopic spatially-separated vortex structures.Keywords
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