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<ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/33/8/I03 B.Ph. van Milligen, A.C.A.P. van Lammeren, N.J. Lopes Cardozo, F.C. Schüller, and M. Verreck, ''Gradients of electron temperature and density across m=2 islands in RTP'', Nucl. Fusion '''33''' (1993) 1119]</ref>
<ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/33/8/I03 B.Ph. van Milligen, A.C.A.P. van Lammeren, N.J. Lopes Cardozo, F.C. Schüller, and M. Verreck, ''Gradients of electron temperature and density across m=2 islands in RTP'', Nucl. Fusion '''33''' (1993) 1119]</ref>


The interaction of neighbouring island chains causes magnetic chaos and enhanced (anomalous) radial transport.
The interaction of neighbouring island chains causes the magnetic field to become stochastic (according to the Chirikov criterion <ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0370-1573(79)90023-1 B.V. Chirikov, ''A universal instability of many-dimensional oscillator systems'', Phys. Rep. '''52''', Issue 5 (1979) 263]</ref>), resulting in enhanced (anomalous) radial transport.


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