Omnigeneity

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Omnigeneity (or omnigenity) is a property of the vacuum magnetic field such that the mean radial collisionless guiding center magnetic drift is zero. Thus, in a perfectly omnigenous field, all collisionless trajectories are confined. [1] [2]

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References

  1. D.A. Garren and A.H. Boozer, Existence of quasihelically symmetric stellarators, Phys. Fluids B 3 (1991) 2822
  2. M. Landreman and P.J. Catto, Omnigenity as generalized quasisymmetry, Phys. Plasmas 19 (2012) 056103