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Order from disorder

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The formation of a macroscopic self-organized electromagnetic-field structure during a collisionless interaction of supersonic plasma streams is challenging existing models of counter-streaming plasmas.

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Figure 1: A self-organized electromagnetic-field structure formed by a collisionless interaction of counter-streaming plasmas.

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    In the News & Views article the sentence beginning "The size of the structure (~5 mm)..." the number 5,000 should have been 50,000. This error has now been corrected in all versions of the News & Views article.

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Lebedev, S. Order from disorder. Nature Phys 8, 785–786 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2448

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