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A system is said to be in this state when it is at an attractive critical point at which it behaves as in a phase transition (i.e., the spatial and temporal scales are scale-invariant, or nearly so). | A system is said to be in this state when it is at an attractive critical point at which it behaves as in a phase transition (i.e., the spatial and temporal scales are scale-invariant, or nearly so). | ||
In magnetically confined plasmas, this state is thought to be responsible for the global transport phenomena of ''profile consistency'', the ''Bohm scaling'' of confinement (in L-mode), and ''power degradation''. Profile consistency is the observation that profiles tend to have roughly the same shape, regardless of the power and location of the applied heating. | In magnetically confined plasmas, this state is thought to be responsible for the global transport phenomena of ''profile consistency'', the ''Bohm scaling'' of confinement (in L-mode) | ||
<ref>B.A. Carreras, IEEE Trans. Plasma Science '''25''', 1281 (1997)</ref>, and ''power degradation''. Profile consistency is the observation that profiles tend to have roughly the same shape, regardless of the power and location of the applied heating. | |||
<ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0741-3335/43/12A/325 F. Ryter et al., Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion '''43''', A323 (2001)]</ref> | <ref>[http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0741-3335/43/12A/325 F. Ryter et al., Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion '''43''', A323 (2001)]</ref> | ||
Power degradation shows up in global transport scaling laws, and implies a sub-linear scaling of the plasma energy content with the injected power. | Power degradation shows up in global transport scaling laws, and implies a sub-linear scaling of the plasma energy content with the injected power. | ||