@article{oai:nifs-repository.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000238,
 author = {HORIUCHI,  RITOKU and Ohtani,  Hiroaki and ISHIZAWA,  Akihiro},
 journal = {Journal of Plasma and Fusion Research SERIES},
 month = {},
 note = {Dynamical behavior of thin current sheets under the influence of collisionless reconnection in an open system is investigated by using newly developed electromagnetic (EM) particle simulation codes. In a three-dimensional open system collisionless driven reconnection evolves dynamically under the influence of an external driving flow and three different types of plasma instabilities excited in a thin current sheet. Driving electric field imposed at the boundary penetrates into the current sheet in accordance with the propagation of the lower hybrid drift wave excited in the periphery. When the electric field reaches the neutral sheet, collisionless reconnection is triggered. The current sheet is split as a result of collisionless reconnection, and thus small islands appear in the downstream. The accumulation of current density inside the islands excites the kink instability leading to the destruction of the island structure. A low frequency EM instability is triggered in the current sheet after the island structure disappears in the system.},
 pages = {614--617},
 title = {Dynamical Evolution of Thin Current Sheets in a Three-Dimensional Open System},
 volume = {6},
 year = {2004}
}