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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 127, Issue 15, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.155001
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- Simons Foundation [560651]
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Rigorous upper bounds on the growth rate of local gyrokinetic instabilities in magnetized plasmas are derived from the evolution equation for the Helmholtz free energy. These bounds apply to both electrostatic and electromagnetic instabilities, regardless of the number of particle species, their collision frequency, and the geometry of the magnetic field. These bounds not only apply to linear instabilities, but also set an upper limit on the nonlinear growth of the free energy.
A family of rigorous upper bounds on the growth rate of local gyrokinetic instabilities in magnetized plasmas is derived from the evolution equation for the Helmholtz free energy. These bounds hold for both electrostatic and electromagnetic instabilities, regardless of the number of particle species, their collision frequency, and the geometry of the magnetic field. A large number of results that have earlier been derived in special cases and observed in numerical simulations are thus brought into a unifying framework. These bounds apply not only to linear instabilities but also imply an upper limit to the nonlinear growth of the free energy.
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