{"paper":{"title":"Magnetic reconnection and stochastic plasmoid chains in high-Lundquist-number plasmas","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["physics.plasm-ph"],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.SR","authors_text":"A. A. Schekochihin, D. A. Uzdensky, N. F. Loureiro, R. Samtaney","submitted_at":"2011-08-19T20:04:07Z","abstract_excerpt":"A numerical study of magnetic reconnection in the large-Lundquist-number ($S$), plasmoid-dominated regime is carried out for $S$ up to $10^7$. The theoretical model of Uzdensky {\\it et al.} [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\\bf 105}, 235002 (2010)] is confirmed and partially amended. The normalized reconnection rate is $\\normEeff\\sim 0.02$ independently of $S$ for $S\\gg10^4$. The plasmoid flux ($\\Psi$) and half-width ($w_x$) distribution functions scale as $f(\\Psi)\\sim \\Psi^{-2}$ and $f(w_x)\\sim w_x^{-2}$. The joint distribution of $\\Psi$ and $w_x$ shows that plasmoids populate a triangular region $w_x\\gtrsi"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1108.4040","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}