Observation of quasi-two-dimensional nonlinear interactions in a drift-wave streamer

Phys Rev Lett. 2010 Nov 26;105(22):225002. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.225002. Epub 2010 Nov 23.

Abstract

A streamer, which is a bunching of drift-wave fluctuations, and its mediator, which generates the streamer by coupling with other fluctuations, have been observed in a cylindrical magnetized plasma. Their radial structures were investigated in detail by using the biphase analysis. Their quasi-two-dimensional structures were revealed to be equivalent with a pair of fast and slow modes predicted by a nonlinear Schrödinger equation based on the Hasegawa-Mima model.