Magnetic Field Diffusion and the Formation of Circumstellar Disks
  A non-ideal MHD collapse calculation employing the axisymmetric thin-disk
approximation is used to resolve cloud core collapse down to the scales of the
second (stellar) core. Rotation and a magnetic braking torque are included in
the model, and the partial ionization resulting in ambipolar diffusion and
Ohmic dissipation is calculated from a detailed chemical network. We find that
a centrifugal disk can indeed form in the earliest stage of star formation, due
to a shut-off of magnetic braking caused by magnetic field diffusion in the
first core region. Thus, there is no catastrophic magnetic braking in a model
with realistic non-ideal MHD.
