Experimental evidence of low-dimensional chaotic convection dynamics in a toroidal magnetized plasma.
In a toroidal plasma confined by a purely toroidal magnetic field with a weak vertical field superimposed a system of convection cells are generated spontaneously, interacting with a background electron density gradient. The dynamics of this interaction is low-dimensional, chaotic, and consistent with solutions of the Lorenz equations in the diffusionless limit.
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Department of Physics and Technology, University of Tromsø, Norway.
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