A self-consistent model of the plasma staircase and nonlinear Schrödinger equation with subquadratic power nonlinearity

Alexander V. Milovanov, Jens Juul Rasmussen, Guilhem Dif-Pradalier

A new basis has been found for the theory of self-organization of transport avalanches and jet zonal flows in L-mode tokamak plasma, the so-called "plasma staircase." The jet zonal…