National Academy of Sciences
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 17, April 2025.
SignificanceA fundamental tenet of thermodynamics is that chaotic systems will relax to maximum-entropy states. In plasmas, the chaos is conventionally provided by interparticle collisions and the universal maximum-entropy equilibrium is a Maxwellian …
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Relaxation to universal non-Maxwellian equilibria in a collisionless plasma
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 17, April 2025. SignificanceA fundamental tenet of thermodynamics is that chaotic systems will relax to maximum-entropy states. In plasmas, the chaos is conventionally provided by interparticle collisions and the universal maximum-entropy equilibrium is a Maxwellian …
