Plasma Turbulence | Xiaocan Li

Self-generated turbulence in 3D magnetic reconnection. (Li et al., 2019)

This project started when I was working at Los Alamos National Lab. Turbulence is a topic that I don’t know enough about. Over the years, I have figured out a few problems that I can work on and are related to my other projects, including

the properties of reconnection-driven turbulence (turbulence amplitude, spectrum, anisotropy, compressibility, etc.)
particle acceleration and transport in turbulence driven by reconnection or other mechanisms
turbulent magnetic reconnection and its implications

Publications

2021

ApJ

Magnetic Energy Release, Plasma Dynamics, and Particle Acceleration in Relativistic Turbulent Magnetic Reconnection

Fan Guo, Xiaocan Li, William Daughton, and 5 more authors

The Astrophysical Journal, Oct 2021

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@article{2021ApJ...919..111G,
  author = {Guo, Fan and {Li}, Xiaocan and {Daughton}, William and {Li}, Hui and {Kilian}, Patrick and {Liu}, Yi-Hsin and {Zhang}, Qile and {Zhang}, Haocheng},
  title = {{Magnetic Energy Release, Plasma Dynamics, and Particle Acceleration in Relativistic Turbulent Magnetic Reconnection}},
  journal = {The Astrophysical Journal},
  keywords = {High energy astrophysics, 739, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Physics - Plasma Physics},
  year = {2021},
  month = oct,
  volume = {919},
  number = {2},
  eid = {111},
  pages = {111},
  doi = {10.3847/1538-4357/ac0918},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  eprint = {2008.02743},
  primaryclass = {astro-ph.HE},
  adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021ApJ...919..111G},
  adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System},
  projects = {reconnection:rel,turbulence}
}

2020

ApJ

Fast Magnetic Reconnection with Turbulence in High Lundquist Number Limit

Liping Yang, Hui Li, Fan Guo, and 5 more authors

The Astrophysical Journal, Oct 2020

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@article{2020ApJ...901L..22Y,
  author = {Yang, Liping and {Li}, Hui and {Guo}, Fan and {Li}, Xiaocan and {Li}, Shengtai and {He}, Jiansen and {Zhang}, Lei and {Feng}, Xueshang},
  title = {{Fast Magnetic Reconnection with Turbulence in High Lundquist Number Limit}},
  journal = {The Astrophysical Journal},
  keywords = {Solar magnetic reconnection, Interplanetary turbulence, Computational methods, Solar corona, 1504, 830, 1965, 1483},
  year = {2020},
  month = oct,
  volume = {901},
  number = {2},
  eid = {L22},
  pages = {L22},
  doi = {10.3847/2041-8213/abb76b},
  adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020ApJ...901L..22Y},
  adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System},
  projects = {reconnection:rate,turbulence}
}

ApJ

Heating of Heavy Ions in Low-beta Compressible Turbulence

Xiangrong Fu, Fan Guo, Hui Li, and 1 more author

The Astrophysical Journal, Feb 2020

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@article{2020ApJ...890..161F,
  author = {Fu, Xiangrong and {Guo}, Fan and {Li}, Hui and {Li}, Xiaocan},
  title = {{Heating of Heavy Ions in Low-beta Compressible Turbulence}},
  journal = {The Astrophysical Journal},
  keywords = {1491, 1083, 830, 23, 1544, Physics - Space Physics, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Physics - Plasma Physics},
  year = {2020},
  month = feb,
  volume = {890},
  number = {2},
  eid = {161},
  pages = {161},
  doi = {10.3847/1538-4357/ab6d68},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  eprint = {1909.12404},
  primaryclass = {physics.space-ph},
  adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020ApJ...890..161F},
  adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System},
  projects = {SEPs,turbulence}
}

2019

ApJ

Formation of Power-law Electron Energy Spectra in Three-dimensional Low-\ensuremathβ Magnetic Reconnection

Xiaocan Li, Fan Guo, Hui Li, and 2 more authors

The Astrophysical Journal, Oct 2019

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@article{2019ApJ...884..118L,
  author = {Li, Xiaocan and {Guo}, Fan and {Li}, Hui and {Stanier}, Adam and {Kilian}, Patrick},
  title = {{Formation of Power-law Electron Energy Spectra in Three-dimensional Low-{\ensuremath{\beta}} Magnetic Reconnection}},
  journal = {The Astrophysical Journal},
  keywords = {Interplanetary particle acceleration, Solar magnetic reconnection, Solar flares, Solar corona, Space plasmas, 826, 1504, 1496, 1483, 1261, 1544, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Physics - Plasma Physics, Physics - Space Physics},
  year = {2019},
  month = oct,
  volume = {884},
  number = {2},
  eid = {118},
  pages = {118},
  doi = {10.3847/1538-4357/ab4268},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  eprint = {1909.01911},
  primaryclass = {astro-ph.SR},
  adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019ApJ...884..118L},
  adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System},
  projects = {reconnection:nonrel,turbulence}
}

2018

ApJ

Parametric Decay Instability and Dissipation of Low-frequency Alfvén Waves in Low-beta Turbulent Plasmas

Xiangrong Fu, Hui Li, Fan Guo, and 2 more authors

The Astrophysical Journal, Mar 2018

DOI Bib

@article{2018ApJ...855..139F,
  author = {Fu, Xiangrong and {Li}, Hui and {Guo}, Fan and {Li}, Xiaocan and {Roytershteyn}, Vadim},
  title = {{Parametric Decay Instability and Dissipation of Low-frequency Alfv{\'e}n Waves in Low-beta Turbulent Plasmas}},
  journal = {The Astrophysical Journal},
  keywords = {instabilities, solar wind, turbulence, waves, Physics - Space Physics, Physics - Plasma Physics},
  year = {2018},
  month = mar,
  volume = {855},
  number = {2},
  eid = {139},
  pages = {139},
  doi = {10.3847/1538-4357/aaacd6},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  eprint = {1710.04149},
  primaryclass = {physics.space-ph},
  adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018ApJ...855..139F},
  adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System},
  projects = {turbulence}
}

2017

Dissipation and particle energization in moderate to low beta turbulent plasma via PIC simulations

Kirit Makwana, Hui Li, Fan Guo, and 1 more author

In Journal of Physics Conference Series, May 2017

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@inproceedings{2017JPhCS.837a2004M,
  author = {Makwana, Kirit and {Li}, Hui and {Guo}, Fan and {Li}, Xiaocan},
  title = {{Dissipation and particle energization in moderate to low beta turbulent plasma via PIC simulations}},
  booktitle = {Journal of Physics Conference Series},
  year = {2017},
  series = {Journal of Physics Conference Series},
  volume = {837},
  month = may,
  eid = {012004},
  pages = {012004},
  doi = {10.1088/1742-6596/837/1/012004},
  adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017JPhCS.837a2004M},
  adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System},
  projects = {turbulence}
}