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Erratum: “Nonlinear saturation of the Weibel instability”

[Phys. Plasmas 24, 112116 (2017)] 
P. Cagas ; A. Hakim; W. Scales ; B. Srinivasan

Physics of Plasmas 26, 049904 (2019)

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5097790

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Erratum: “Nonlinear saturation of the Weibel

instability” [Phys. Plasmas 24, 112116 (2017)]
Cite as: Phys. Plasmas 26, 049904 (2019); doi: 10.1063/1.5097790
Submitted: 28 March 2019 . Accepted: 2 April 2019 .
Published Online: 26 April 2019

P. Cagas,1 A. Hakim,2 W. Scales,1 and B. Srinivasan1,a)

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1
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, USA
2
Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA

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Electronic mail: srinbhu@vt.edu

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5097790

The dispersion relation for the Weibel instability [Eq. (6) in the original paper1] is missing a factor of 2. The corrected dispersion relation is
given here in the following equation:
" ! #

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x20 u2d u2d 2v2
1 ¼ 2 2 fZ ðfÞ 1 þ 2 þ 2 þ 2th f2 : (1)
ck vth vth c

This change leads to a significantly better agreement between the simulation results and the linear theory with respect to the previous case (see Fig.
1 and Fig. 1 in the original paper).

FIG. 1. Linear theory prediction of the Weibel instability growth rates for the two cases, a high-temperature case (orange; ud/vth ¼ 1.0) and a low-temperature case (blue;
ud/vth ¼ 0.13). The solid lines represent the linear theory results. Markers represent the growth rates obtained from simulation.

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P. Cagas, A. Hakim, W. Scales, and B. Srinivasan, “Nonlinear saturation of the Weibel instability,” Phys. Plasmas 24, 112116 (2017).

Phys. Plasmas 26, 049904 (2019); doi: 10.1063/1.5097790 26, 049904-1

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