Mechanism for Anomalous Current Penetration
- 5 June 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 28 (23), 1506-1508
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.28.1506
Abstract
A localized collisionless instability that occurs in a nonuniform or skin current flowing along an external magnetic field is shown to produce an anomalous viscosity giving cross-field diffusion of the current. The instability can occur under conditions where the ion-sound wave is stable and is then the dominant process for penetration.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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- Anomalously Rapid Skin-Current Penetration and Heating in Pulsed-Plasma ExperimentsPhysical Review Letters, 1971