Charged particle transport across magnetic field driven by magnetosonic solitons in plasma.

Gerasimenko, N V; Trukhachev, F M; Vasiliev, M M; Petrov, O F · Phys Rev E · 2025

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

This work investigates the unidirectional transport of charged particles across magnetic field lines driven by magnetosonic solitons in a collisionless plasma. Within the framework of a magnetohydrodynamic model, numerical solutions as well as analytical expressions for small-amplitude solitons are obtained, and it is shown that particles experience a unidirectional displacement proportional to the square root of the wave amplitude, indicating that solitons generate substantial matter transport across the magnetic field.