Strong "quantum" chaos in the global ballooning mode spectrum of three-dimensional plasmas

Details Strong "quantum" chaos in the global ballooning mode spectrum of three-dimensional plasmas Strong "quantum" chaos in the global ballooning mode spectrum of three-dimensional plasmas

2001-02-21

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0102065v1

Phys. Rev. Letters 86, 2321-2324 (2001)

Physics

Plasma Physics

4 pages typeset, including 2 figures. Paper accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Letters

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.2321

The spectrum of ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) pressure-driven (ballooning) modes in strongly nonaxisymmetric toroidal systems is difficult to analyze numerically owing to the singular nature of ideal MHD caused by lack of an inherent scale length. In this paper, ideal MHD is regularized by using a $k$-space cutoff, making the ray tracing for the WKB ballooning formalism a chaotic Hamiltonian billiard problem. The minimum width of the toroidal Fourier spectrum needed for resolving toroidally localized ballooning modes with a global eigenvalue code is estimated from the Weyl formula. This phase-space-volume estimation method is applied to two stellarator cases.

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