Negative specific heat of a magnetically self-confined plasma torus.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
It is shown that the thermodynamic maximum-entropy principle predicts negative specific heat for a stationary, magnetically self-confined current-carrying plasma torus. Implications for the magnetic self-confinement of fusion plasma are considered.