Stability of highly asymmetric non-neutral plasmas
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Plasmas
- Vol. 6 (1) , 19-30
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.873299
Abstract
The stability of non-neutral plasma equilibria subjected to external, azimuthal–asymmetric potentials is studied. The system exhibits a wide range of complex, symmetry-dependent, bifurcation phenomena.Keywords
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