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Negative temperature states for the two-dimensional guiding-centre plasma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

Glenn Joyce  and
David Montgomery
Glenn Joyce
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Iowa
David Montgomery
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Iowa
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Abstract

Theoretical development and numerical simulation of the two-dimensional electrostatic guiding-centre plasma with positive total interaction energy are presented. Equilibrium statistical mechanics predicts that no spatially homogeneous thermal equilibrium state exists for this system. This non-existence is associated with the phenomenon of ‘negative temperatures’. Quasi-stable, spatially inhomogeneous states are shown to form, and are characterized by macroscopic spatially-separated vortex structures.

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Research Article
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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , August 1973 , pp. 107 - 121
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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