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J J Bissell1, C P Ridgers, R J Kingham

  • 1Imperial College London, United Kingdom.

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A new plasma instability driven by transport processes, specifically the Nernst and Righi-Leduc effects, has been identified. This instability can amplify magnetic fields and temperature variations in magnetized plasmas without needing fluid motion or density changes.

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Area of Science:

  • Plasma Physics
  • Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Transport Phenomena

Background:

  • Magnetized plasmas exhibit complex behaviors influenced by various physical processes.
  • Understanding plasma instabilities is crucial for fields like astrophysics and fusion energy.
  • Previous models often relied on hydrodynamic motion or density gradients to explain instabilities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present the mechanism of a novel instability in magnetized plasmas.
  • To derive the dispersion relation for this new instability.
  • To investigate the role of transport phenomena in driving plasma instabilities.

Main Methods:

  • Theoretical derivation of a dispersion relation.
  • Analysis of feedback between the Nernst effect and Righi-Leduc heat-flow phenomena.
  • Application of calculations to a nanosecond laser gas-jet experiment.

Main Results:

  • Identified an instability driven purely by transport processes.
  • Demonstrated that hydrodynamic motion and density gradients are not required.
  • Predicted growth of magnetic field and temperature perturbations with specific wavelengths (∼50 μm) and growth times (∼0.1 ns).
  • Showed the instability generates propagating magnetothermal waves.

Conclusions:

  • Transport processes, particularly the Nernst and Righi-Leduc effects, can independently drive plasma instabilities.
  • The discovered instability offers a new mechanism for magnetic field and temperature perturbations in plasmas.
  • The direction of resulting magnetothermal waves is dependent on the Hall parameter.