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The study of electric fields is an important topic in modern plasma physics (Wagner in Plasma Phys Control Fusion 49:B1, 2007 [1]). This includes both the fundamental physics leading to the formation of an electric field in magnetically confined quasi-neutral plasmas and the effects of the electric field on transport and confinement. It is intimately linked with the applied problem of realising a sufficiently long confinement time in a future fusion reactor (Melnikov in Nat Phys 12:386, 2016 [2].
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Melnikov, A.V. (2019). Introduction. In: Electric Potential in Toroidal Plasmas. Springer Series in Plasma Science and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03481-8_1
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