{"paper":{"title":"Collisionless magnetic reconnection: Flux quanta, field lines, `composite electrons' -- Is the quantum-Hall effect involved in its micro-scale physics?","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["cond-mat.mes-hall","physics.geo-ph","physics.plasm-ph"],"primary_cat":"physics.space-ph","authors_text":"R. A. Treumann, R. Nakamura, W. Baumjohann","submitted_at":"2011-03-05T18:56:54Z","abstract_excerpt":"Microscopically, collisionless reconnection in thin current sheets is argued to involve `composite electrons' in the ion inertial (Hall current) domain, a tiny fraction of electrons only. These `composite electrons' are confined to lower Landau levels $\\epsilon_L\\ll T_e$ (energy much less than temperature). They demagnetise by absorbing magnetic flux quanta $\\Phi_0=h/e$, decouple from the magnetic field, transport the attached magnetic flux into the non-magnetic centre of the current layer, where they release the flux in the form of micro-scale magnetic vortices, becoming ordinary electrons. T"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1103.1076","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}