Long-time tails do not necessarily imply self-organized criticality or the breakdown of the standard transport paradigm

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 3731-3734

  Krommes, John A ^a   Ottaviani, Maurizio ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Centre de Cadarache   (France)

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DOI: 10.1063/1.873677     Document Type: Article

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