B. Loring

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that turbulent cascade leads to generation of coherent structures in the form of current sheets that steepen to electron scales, triggering strong localized heating of the plasma.

TL;DR: In particular, collisionless shocks with their reflected ions that can get upstream before retransmission can generate previously unforeseen phenomena in the post-shocked flows: (i) formation of reconnecting current sheets and magnetic islands with sizes up to tens of ion inertial length.

TL;DR: In this article, high-resolution kinetic simulations of collisionless plasma driven by shear show the development of turbulence characterized by dynamic coherent sheet-like current density structures spanning a range of scales down to electron scales.

TL;DR: In this article, a new approach for computing the global reconnection rate in the presence of this complexity is proposed, where mixing of electrons originating from separate sides of the magnetopause layer is used as a proxy to rapidly identify the magnetic topology and track the evolution of magnetic flux.

TL;DR: High resolution kinetic simulations of collisionless plasma driven by shear show the development of turbulence characterized by dynamic coherent sheetlike current density structures spanning a range of scales down to electron scales, indicating that kinetic scale plasma, like magnetohydrodynamics, becomes intermittent due to current sheet formation.