Magnetic stochasticity and diffusion

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVE.100.043205arXiv1908.06474WikidataQ91467169 ScholiaQ91467169MaRDI QIDQ6323830FDOQ6323830

Ethan T. Vishniac, Amir Jafari, Vignesh Vaikundaraman

Publication date: 18 August 2019

Abstract: We develop a quantitative relationship between magnetic diffusion and the level of randomness, or stochasticity, of the diffusing magnetic field in a magnetized medium. A general mathematical formulation of magnetic stochasticity in turbulence has been developed in previous work in terms of the ${calL}_p$-norm $$, $p$th order magnetic stochasticity of the stochastic field $$, based on the coarse-grained fields, $$ and $$, at different scales, $leqL$. For laminar flows, stochasticity level becomes the level of field self-entanglement or spatial complexity. In this paper, we establish a connection between magnetic stochasticity $S_p(t)$ and magnetic diffusion in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence and use a homogeneous, incompressible MHD simulation to test this prediction. Our results agree with the well-known fact that magnetic diffusion in turbulent media follows the super-linear Richardson dispersion scheme. This is intimately related to stochastic magnetic reconnection in which super-linear Richardson diffusion broadens the matter outflow width and accelerates the reconnection process.

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