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  "abstract": "The classical transport of magnetic field and electron energy in a plasma requires the use of coefficients that depend on plasma ionization $Z$ and magnetization $χ$. This paper explains these scalings through studying the electron velocities responsible for each transport process. Both electron-electron collisions and magnetization affect higher velocity electron populations preferentially, lowering the carrier velocities; transport carried by a high energy electron population is therefore more suppressed by both electron-electron collisions and magnetization than transport carried by lower velocities. Carrier Hall parameters $ψ=χf(Z)$ are defined for each coefficient such that magnetization can be described independent of ionization. An analytic idealized coefficient with a single rigid carrier velocity reproduces many of the characteristics of the coefficients, in particular thermal conductivity, but overestimates plasma magnetization due to magnetization itself lowering the carrier velocity. A single moving carrier model improves agreement, but cannot describe the smoothness of the Righi-Leduc coefficient, which originates from being an average over a range of carrier velocities. This is the first paper in a 3-part series; the subsequent papers will extend the carrier picture to non-local heat-flux (paper 2) and non-local magnetic field evolution (paper 3).",
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      "name": "C. A. Walsh"
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  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.30303",
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  "published": "2026-10-21",
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  "title": "Plasma transport by carrier electrons: classical coefficients across ionization and magnetization",
  "title_text": "Plasma transport by carrier electrons: classical coefficients across ionization and magnetization",
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