Impurity Pinch from a Ratchet Process
- 28 February 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 96 (8) , 085001
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.96.085001
Abstract
A ratchet-type average velocity is shown to appear for test particles moving in a stochastic potential and a magnetic field that is space dependent. This is a possible explanation for impurity behavior in tokamak plasmas.Keywords
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