Title: Chaos Healing by Separatrix Disappearance and Quasisingle Helicity States of the Reversed Field Pinch
Abstract:The resilience to chaotic perturbations of one-parameter one-degree-of-freedom Hamiltonian dynamics is shown to increase when its corresponding separatrix vanishes due to a saddle-node bifurcation. Th...The resilience to chaotic perturbations of one-parameter one-degree-of-freedom Hamiltonian dynamics is shown to increase when its corresponding separatrix vanishes due to a saddle-node bifurcation. This is first highlighted for the magnetic chaos related to quasisingle helicity (QSH) states of the reversed field pinch. It provides a rationale for the confinement improvement of helical structures experimentally found for QSH plasmas; such a feature would not be expected from the classical resonance overlap picture as the separatrix disappearance occurs when the amplitude of the dominant mode increases.Read More
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-10-09
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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