Anomalous Diffusion and Ion Heating in the Presence of Electrostatic Hydrogen Cyclotron Instabilities
- 9 February 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 46 (6) , 427-430
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.46.427
Abstract
One- and two-dimensional particle simulations have been carried out to study electrostatic ion cyclotron instabilities for a hydrogen plasma in a strong magnetic field. It is found that strong ion heating and anomalous cross-field diffusion comparable to Bohm diffusion take place associated with the instability. Implications of the instability to the recent observations in fusion devices and space plasmas are discussed.Keywords
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