  Using a full kinetic, implicit particle-in-cell code, iPiC3D, we studied the
properties of plasma kinetic turbulence, such as would be found at the
interface between the solar wind and the Earth magnetosphere at low latitude
during northwards periods. In this case, in the presence of a magnetic field B
oriented mostly perpendicular to the velocity shear, turbulence is fed by the
disruption of a Kelvin-Helmholtz vortex chain via secondary instabilities,
vortex pairing and non-linear interactions.
  We found that the magnetic energy spectral cascade between ion and electron
inertial scales, $d_i$ and $d_e$, is in agreement with satellite observations
and other previous numerical simulations; however, in our case the spectrum
ends with a peak beyond $d_e$ due to the occurrence of the lower hybrid drift
instability. The electric energy spectrum is influenced by effects of secondary
instabilities: anomalous resistivity, fed by the development of the lower
hybrid drift instability, steepens the spectral decay and, depending on the
alignment or anti-alignment of B and the shear vorticity, peaks due to
ion-Bernstein waves may dominate the spectrum around $d_i$. These waves are
generated by counter-streaming flow structures, through flux freezing also
responsible for reconnection of the in-plane component of the magnetic field,
which then generates electron pressure anisotropy and flattening of the
field-aligned component of the electron distribution function.
