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Magnetic Cavitation and the Reemergence of Nonlocal Transport in Laser Plasmas

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Article number075003
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>22/02/2008
<mark>Journal</mark>Physical review letters
Issue number7
Volume100
Number of pages4
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

We present the first fully kinetic Vlasov-Fokker-Planck simulations of nanosecond laser-plasma interactions including self-consistent magnetic fields and hydrodynamic plasma expansion. For the largest magnetic fields externally applied to long-pulse laser-gas-jet experiments (12 T) a significant degree of cavitation of the B field ( > 40 % ) will be shown to occur from the laser-heated region in under half a nanosecond. This is due to the Nernst effect and leads to the reemergence of nonlocality even if the initial value of the magnetic field strength is sufficient to localize the transport.