General theory of the plasmoid instability

Magnetic Reconnection Onset via Disruption of a Forming Current Sheet by the Tearing Instability

(2016) D. A. Uzdensky et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Visco-resistive plasmoid instability

(2016) Luca Comisso et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Phase diagrams of forced magnetic reconnection in Taylor’s model

(2015) L. Comisso et al.   JOURNAL OF PLASMA PHYSICS

Plasmoids Formation During Simulations of Coaxial Helicity Injection in the National Spherical Torus Experiment

(2015) F. Ebrahimi et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Extended theory of the Taylor problem in the plasmoid-unstable regime

(2015) L. Comisso et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

RECONNECTION OF QUASI-SINGULAR CURRENT SHEETS: THE “IDEAL” TEARING MODE

(2013) Fulvia Pucci et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

Imaging coronal magnetic-field reconnection in a solar flare

(2013) Yang Su et al.   Nature Physics

Plasmoid and Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in Sweet-Parker current sheets

(2013) N. F. Loureiro et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Plasmoid instability in high-Lundquist-number magnetic reconnection

(2013) Yi-Min Huang et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

The plasmoid instability during asymmetric inflow magnetic reconnection

(2013) Nicholas A. Murphy et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

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

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

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

Phase diagram for magnetic reconnection in heliophysical, astrophysical, and laboratory plasmas

(2011) Hantao Ji et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Linear plasmoid instability of thin current sheets with shear flow

(2010) Lei Ni 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

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

Scaling of Sweet–Parker reconnection with secondary islands

(2009) P. A. Cassak et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

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

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

MESSENGER Observations of Magnetic Reconnection in Mercury's Magnetosphere

(2009) J. A. Slavin et al.   SCIENCE