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Topological Arrest of Ballooning Modes in Nonaxisymmetric Toroidal Plasmas

Amitava Bhattacharjee

Abstract

Author(s): Amitava Bhattacharjee<br/><p>Nonlinear stability in magnetically confined plasmas is governed not only by local linear growth, but is fundamentally a connectivity property of the flux surface, governed by a topological percolation threshold.</p><img src="//cdn.journals.aps.org/journals/PRL/key_images/10.1103/6m2z-wlmb.png" width="200" height=\"100\"><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 105101] Published Tue Sep 01, 2026

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