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Area of Science:

  • Plasma physics
  • Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Wave phenomena

Background:

  • Ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simplifies plasma behavior.
  • Hall magnetohydrodynamics (HMHD) offers greater accuracy at smaller scales by including the Hall effect.
  • A complete description of HMHD eigenmodes was previously lacking.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To derive the complete spectrum and eigenvectors of Hall magnetohydrodynamics (HMHD) waves.
  • To identify the topological structure of HMHD wave modes.
  • To clarify the relationship between HMHD and ideal MHD wave spectra.

Main Methods:

  • Derivation of HMHD wave spectrum and eigenvectors.
  • Analysis of wave mode topology.
  • Comparison with ideal MHD in the limit of vanishing Hall parameter.

Main Results:

  • The HMHD wave spectrum consists of three branches: slow magnetosonic-Hall, shear Alfvén-Hall, and fast magnetosonic-Hall waves.
  • These branches continuously reduce to ideal MHD counterparts as the Hall parameter approaches zero.
  • HMHD wave structure exhibits nontrivial topology with a Weyl point and nonzero Chern numbers, unlike ideal MHD.

Conclusions:

  • HMHD wave spectrum is homotopic to ideal MHD, with no additional branches.
  • The key distinction lies in the topological properties of HMHD waves.
  • The findings clarify the nature of wave propagation in Hall magnetohydrodynamics.