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https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-36-1015-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-36-1015-2018
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The mirror mode: a “superconducting” space plasma analogue

Rudolf A. Treumann and Wolfgang Baumjohann

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The physics of the magnetic mirror mode in its final state of saturation, the thermodynamic equilibrium, is re-examined to demonstrate that the mirror mode is the classical analogue of a superconducting effect in an anisotropic-pressure space plasma. Three different spatial correlation scales are identified which control the behaviour of its evolution into large-amplitude chains of mirror bubbles.