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Laboratory Demonstration of Coronal Heating via Magnetic Reconnection during Nanoflares
Author(s): Wei Sun, Yongli Ping, Chong Lv, Xianxu Jin, Longxing Li, Wenqiang Yuan, Li Feng, Can Ren, Zhu Lei, Baoxian Tian, Xiaofeng Xi, Jialun Chai, Mengqi Jin, Gaoyang Liu, Zhengdong Liu, Yapeng Zhang, Hongzheng Yu, Jun Xiong, Zhiyong Xie, Chen Wang, Wei Wang, Bin Qiao, Zhao Wang, Jiayong Zhong, and Bing Guo
The origin of the solar corona’s million Kelvin temperatures remains a central unsolved problem. While the nanoflare hypothesis is widely accepted and describes magnetic reconnection events at coronal current sheets that are slowly formed by complex driver flows at the solar surface, the possibility… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 175101] Published Tue Oct 20, 2026