Physical Review E (Plasma physics)

Author(s): Tomohiro Tanogami, Makoto Sasaki, and Tatsuya Kobayashi

Magnetically confined fusion plasmas exhibit predator-prey-like cyclic oscillations through the self-regulating interaction between drift-wave turbulence and zonal flow. To elucidate the detailed mechanism and causality underlying this phenomenon, we construct a simple stochastic predator-prey model…

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 035201] Published Tue Mar 03, 2026