Articles | Volume 31, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-31-1191-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-31-1191-2013
ANGEO Communicates
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03 Jul 2013
ANGEO Communicates |  | 03 Jul 2013

Magnetic susceptibility from electron holes

R. A. Treumann and W. Baumjohann

Abstract. A recent theory of magnetic field amplification in electron holes is extended to derive the magnetic susceptibility of an electron-hole gas propagating in a magnetic flux tube along the ambient magnetic field. It is shown that the hole gas behaves diamagnetic adding some small amount to the well-known Landau susceptibility in the hole-carrying volume.