Understanding the dynamics and energetics of magnetic reconnection in a laboratory plasma: Review of recent progress on selected fronts

Electron-scale measurements of magnetic reconnection in space

(2016) J. L. Burch et al.   SCIENCE

A dynamic magnetic tension force as the cause of failed solar eruptions

(2015) Clayton E. Myers et al.   NATURE

Ion bulk heating in magnetic reconnection exhausts at Earth's magnetopause: Dependence on the inflow Alfvén speed and magnetic shear angle

(2014) T. D. Phan et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Bulk ion acceleration and particle heating during magnetic reconnection in a laboratory plasma

(2014) Jongsoo Yoo et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Electron heating during magnetic reconnection: A simulation scaling study

(2014) M. A. Shay et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Conversion of magnetic energy in the magnetic reconnection layer of a laboratory plasma

(2014) Masaaki Yamada et al.   Nature Communications

Energy Partition in Magnetic Reconnection in Earth’s Magnetotail

(2013) J. P. Eastwood et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Observation of Ion Acceleration and Heating during Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection in a Laboratory Plasma

(2013) Jongsoo Yoo et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Kinetic aspects of the ion current layer in a reconnection outflow exhaust

(2013) Seiji Zenitani et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Electromagnetic instability of thin reconnection layers: Comparison of three-dimensional simulations with MRX observations

(2013) V. Roytershteyn et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Electromagnetic Energy Conversion at Reconnection Fronts

(2013) V. Angelopoulos et al.   SCIENCE

Solar Flares: Magnetohydrodynamic Processes

(2013) Kazunari Shibata et al.   Living Reviews in Solar Physics

SIGMOIDAL ACTIVE REGION ON THE SUN: COMPARISON OF A MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICAL SIMULATION AND A NONLINEAR FORCE-FREE FIELD MODEL

(2012) A. Savcheva et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Intense perpendicular electric fields associated with three-dimensional magnetic reconnection at the subsolar magnetopause

(2012) P. L. Pritchett et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Reduced magnetohydrodynamic theory of oblique plasmoid instabilities

(2012) S. D. Baalrud et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Magnetic reconnection and stochastic plasmoid chains in high-Lundquist-number plasmas

(2012) N. F. Loureiro et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Proton acceleration in antiparallel collisionless magnetic reconnection: Kinetic mechanisms behind the fluid dynamics

(2011) N. Aunai et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Super-Alfvénic Propagation of Substorm Reconnection Signatures and Poynting Flux

(2011) M. A. Shay et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Onset of fast reconnection in Hall magnetohydrodynamics mediated by the plasmoid instability

(2011) Yi-Min Huang et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

CRITERIA FOR FLUX ROPE ERUPTION: NON-EQUILIBRIUM VERSUS TORUS INSTABILITY

(2010) P. Démoulin et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Onset of magnetic reconnection in the presence of a normal magnetic field: Realistic ion to electron mass ratio

(2010) P. L. Pritchett   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Scaling of asymmetric magnetic reconnection: Kinetic particle-in-cell simulations

(2010) K. Malakit et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Fast Magnetic Reconnection in the Plasmoid-Dominated Regime

(2010) D. A. Uzdensky et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Laboratory Simulation of Arched Magnetic Flux Rope Eruptions in the Solar Atmosphere

(2010) S. K. P. Tripathi et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Driven magnetic reconnection near the Dreicer limit

(2010) V. Roytershteyn et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Scaling laws of resistive magnetohydrodynamic reconnection in the high-Lundquist-number, plasmoid-unstable regime

(2010) Yi-Min Huang et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

FlareLab: early results

(2010) H Soltwisch et al.   PLASMA PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED FUSION

Magnetic reconnection

(2010) Masaaki Yamada et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Electron Physics of Asymmetric Magnetic Field Reconnection

(2010) Forrest S. Mozer et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

Magnetic Reconnection in Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas

(2009) Ellen G. Zweibel et al.   Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Transition from collisional to kinetic regimes in large-scale reconnection layers

(2009) W. Daughton et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Formation of Plasmoid Chains in Magnetic Reconnection

(2009) R. Samtaney et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Fast reconnection in high-Lundquist-number plasmas due to the plasmoid Instability

(2009) A. Bhattacharjee et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Magnetic Field Overlying Solar Eruption Regions and Kink and Torus Instabilities

(2008) Y. Liu   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

New insights into dissipation in the electron layer during magnetic reconnection

(2008) H. Ji et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

THEMIS observations of modified Hall fields in asymmetric magnetic field reconnection

(2008) F. S. Mozer et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Observations and simulations of asymmetric magnetic field reconnection

(2008) F. S. Mozer et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Evidence of an extended electron current sheet and its neighboring magnetic island during magnetotail reconnection

(2008) L.-J. Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Identification of the Electron-Diffusion Region during Magnetic Reconnection in a Laboratory Plasma

(2008) Yang Ren et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Experimental study of the Hall effect and electron diffusion region during magnetic reconnection in a laboratory plasma

(2008) Yang Ren et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Two-dimensional fully kinetic simulations of driven magnetic reconnection with boundary conditions relevant to the Magnetic Reconnection Experiment

(2008) S. Dorfman et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Ultrahigh performance three-dimensional electromagnetic relativistic kinetic plasma simulation

(2008) K. J. Bowers et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Energetic electron acceleration during multi-island coalescence

(2008) P. L. Pritchett   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

The Hall fields and fast magnetic reconnection

(2008) J. F. Drake et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS