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A nonquasineutral vortex structure with a zero net current is described that arises as a result of electron drift in crossed magnetic and electric fields, the latter being produced by charge separation on a spatial scale of about the magnetic Debye radius r B = |B|/(4πen e ). In such a structure with a radius of r ∼ r B , the magnetic field is maintained by a drift current on the order of the electron Alfvén current J Ae = m e c 3/(2e) and can become as strong as B ≃ m e c 2/(er). Estimates show that, in a plasma with a density of n e = 1021−1023 cm−3 and with nonzero electron vorticity driven by high-power laser radiation on a time scale on the order of θ −1 pe , magnetic fields with a strength of B ∼ 108−109 G are generated on micron and submicron scales. The system with closed current that is considered in the present paper can also serve as a model of hot spots in the channel of a Z-pinch.
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Original Russian Text © A.V. Gordeev, 2006, published in Fizika Plazmy, 2006, Vol. 32, No. 11, pp. 999–1004.
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Gordeev, A.V. Formation of nonquasineutral vortex plasma structures with a zero net current. Plasma Phys. Rep. 32, 921–926 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X06110067
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