Plasmas, like most fluids, usually become more homogeneous when subjected to turbulence. But in the Earth's magnetosphere, and in an unusual device whose confining field is generated by a levitated half-tonne superconducting magnet, precisely the opposite sometimes happens.
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Weiland, J. Turbulence at a pinch. Nature Phys 6, 167–168 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1618
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