A new guiding centre PIC scheme for electromagnetic highly magnetized plasma simulation Original Research Article

A new implicit fully electromagnetic particle in cell (PIC) method is presented in which the full ion dynamic and all the electron guiding centre drifts of a highly magnetized plasma are retained. We show that the electron drifts do not have to be described explicitly, and that they can be simulated using a simple but efficient linear direct implicit method. Tests and simulations using the new scheme are presented.