Impurity Pinch from a Ratchet Process

M. Vlad, F. Spineanu, S. Benkadda

Physical Review Letters · 2006 · 40 citations · 15 references

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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.

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