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Volume 53 Supplement 6

Special Issue: Magnetic Reconnection in Space and Laboratory Plasmas

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Chaotic reconnection due to fast mixing of vortex-current filaments

Earth, Planets and Space volume 53, pages 615–618 (2001)Cite this article

Abstract

We propose a new reconnection mechanism “chaotic reconnection”. A basic mechanism of the chaotic reconnection is examined by means of numerical simulations of collision between two vortex-current filaments. The term “reconnection” means a reconnection of the filaments. We conclude that thle chaotic process works to enhance the reconnection rate of the filaments. We shall propose a similar chaotic process as a candidate for the mechanism of the fast magnetic reconnection.

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  1. RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Wako-shi, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan

    Yuichi Yatsuyanagi

  2. Faculty of Science, Kanagawa University, Hiratsuka-shi, Kanagawa, 259-1293, Japan

    Tadatsugu Hatori

  3. Department of Applied Physics, Waseda University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 169-8555, Japan

    Tomokazu Kato

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Yatsuyanagi, Y., Hatori, T. & Kato, T. Chaotic reconnection due to fast mixing of vortex-current filaments. Earth Planet Sp 53, 615–618 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1186/BF03353280

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