Negative specific heat of a magnetically self-confined plasma torus.
It is shown that the thermodynamic maximum-entropy principle predicts negative specific heat for a stationary, magnetically self-confined current-carrying plasma torus. Implications for the magnetic self-confinement of fusion plasma are considered.
Kiessling
Michael K-H
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Department of Mathematics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey at New Brunswick, 110 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA. miki@math.rutgers.edu
Neukirch
Thomas
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