We now discuss the situation in which magnetic reconnection arises spontaneously in the form of an exponentially growing instability. This instability was originally called the tearing mode, because it “tears” the magnetic field apart, something that is forbidden in ideal MHD.
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Schnack, D.D. (2009). Resistive Instabilities: The Tearing Mode. In: Lectures in Magnetohydrodynamics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 780. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00688-3_34
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