Abstract
It is shown that the transverse plasmon field is modulationally unstable in the Lyapunov sense, leading to a self-similar collapse of the magnetic flux. Such a collapsing magnetic instability is analyzed in both cases of magneto- hydrodynamics and kinetic plasma physics, with their applications to solar intermittent flux and anomalous viscosity in ac- cretion disks, respectively. In the first case, we find that the equilibrium between the ponderomotive force and the Lorentz force in a current sheet gives rise to a more spatially intermittent collapsing magnetic flux, very similar to a turbulent pattern; as a result, the 0:1 kG flux cells with larger scales emerging at the surface from the solar interior become shredded and the flux is thereby contracted rather quickly to a small scale of the order of 100 km as well as concentrated into a 1-2 kG state. In the second case, based on Vlasov equations and Maxwell equations, the collapsing feature of the self-generated magnetic field from transverse plasmons is investigated on rather small scales of the motion or electric current in accretion disks; as the eects of the intermittent magnetic flux, an anomalous magnetic viscosity and an anomalous resistivity are indicated, with a dierent magnetic Prandtl number, which is not very sensitive to the temperatureT .
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