Explosive magnetic reconnection caused by an X-shaped current-vortex layer in a collisionless plasma
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Broad current sheets, current bifurcation, and collisionless reconnection—An Opinion on “Onset of fast magnetic reconnection via subcritical bifurcation” by Z. Guo and X. Wang
Citation: Treumann RA and Baumjohann W (2015) Broad current sheets, current bifurcation, and collisionless reconnection—An Opinion on " Onset of fast magnetic reconnection via subcritical bifurcation " by Z. Magnetic reconnection in current carrying plasmas, in particular when the plasma is collisionless, is an efficient channel of dissipating the energy temporarily stored in electric currents ...
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