Magnetized plasma pressure filaments: Analysis of chaotic and intermittent transport events driven by drift-Alfvén modes

The origin of intermittent fluctuations in an experiment involving several interacting electron plasma pressure filaments in close proximity, embedded in a large linear magnetized plasma device, is investigated. The probability density functions of the fluctuations on the inner and outer gradient of...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physics of plasmas 2022-11, Vol.29 (11)
Hauptverfasser: Karbashewski, S., Sydora, R. D., Van Compernolle, B., Simala-Grant, T., Poulos, M. J.
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Zusammenfassung:The origin of intermittent fluctuations in an experiment involving several interacting electron plasma pressure filaments in close proximity, embedded in a large linear magnetized plasma device, is investigated. The probability density functions of the fluctuations on the inner and outer gradient of the filament bundle are non-Gaussian and the time series contain uncorrelated Lorentzian pulses that give the frequency power spectral densities an exponential shape. A cross-conditionally averaged spatial reconstruction of a temporal event reveals that the intermittent character is caused by radially and azimuthally propagating turbulent structures with transverse spatial scales on the order of the electron skin depth. These eruption events originate from interacting pressure gradient-driven drift-Alfvén instabilities on the outer gradient and edge of the filament bundle. The temporal Lorentzian shape of the intermittent structures and exponential spectra are suggestive of deterministic chaos in the underlying dynamics; this conclusion is supported by the complexity–entropy analysis (CH-plane) that shows the experimental time series are located in the chaotic regime.
ISSN:1070-664X
1089-7674
DOI:10.1063/5.0104283