Drift-dissipative excitation of electron vortices in a plasma
Petviashvili V. I., Pogutse I. O.
Vortex tubes with a diameter smaller than the ion Larmor radius are generated in an inhomogeneous plasma as a result of a dissipation involving electrons. The mixing in these vortices may be the primary mechanism for the anomalous electron thermal conductivity in a plasma with m/M</?<L