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Equilibration rate of spin temperature in a strongly magnetized pure electron plasma

 

作者: Shi‐Jie Chen,   Daniel H. E. Dubin,  

 

期刊: Physics of Fluids B: Plasma Physics  (AIP Available online 1993)
卷期: Volume 5, issue 3  

页码: 691-710

 

ISSN:0899-8221

 

年代: 1993

 

DOI:10.1063/1.860514

 

出版商: AIP

 

数据来源: AIP

 

摘要:

The equilibration of spin temperatureTspinwith kinetic temperatureTis examined in a weakly correlated pure electron plasma in the strongly magnetized limit, where the distance of closest approach is large compared to the Larmor radius. In this limit, the spin precession frequency &OHgr;p=g&OHgr;c/2 is large so the component of spin along the magnetic field is an adiabatic invariant that is broken only by resonant magnetic fluctuations of frequency &OHgr;p. (Here &OHgr;cis the electron cyclotron frequency andg&bartil;2.002.) In this case, the most important spin flip mechanism stems from electron–electron collisions in a spatially inhomogeneous magnetic field. Such collisions cause an exchange of spin and cyclotron quanta, and consequently the conventional many‐electron adiabatic invariant (i.e., the total number of cyclotron quanta) is broken and is replaced by a new adiabatic invariant, equal to the sum of the spin and cyclotron actions. A quantum Boltzmann equation is derived to describe the equilibration ofTspintowardT.

 

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