Rayleigh–Taylor stability of quantum magnetohydrodynamic plasma with electron inertia and resistivity

Abstract

Abstract The analytical observation of the simultaneous impacts of electrical resistivity, finite Larmor radius (FLR) correction, and electron inertia on the magnetohydrodynamic Rayleigh–Taylor unstable mode of incompressible rotating quantum plasma is carried out. The perturbation formulations of the problem are derived by applying the QMHD model to obtain the dispersion equation for the stratified quantum hydrodynamic fluid plasma. The dispersion equation is analyzed graphically and numerically for the various cases. It is obtained that the simultaneous impacts of rotation, resistivity, FLR correction, electron inertia, and quantum correction modify the Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) unstable mode of the stratified magnetized fluid plasma. The graphical studies show that the rotational effect destabilizes or stabilizes the Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) instability of the magnetized quantum plasma, with or without the impacts of electrical resistivity and electron inertia. This result may be useful for studying the magnetic reconnection process and its applications, viz., supernova explosions, neutron stars, white dwarfs, etc.