Helander P
Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, 17491 Greifswald, Germany.
Phys Rev Lett. 2014 Sep 26;113(13):135003. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.135003. Epub 2014 Sep 24.
It is shown that magnetically confined electron-positron plasmas can enjoy remarkable stability properties. Many of the microinstabilities driving turbulence and transport in electron-ion plasmas are absent if the density is so low that the Debye length is significantly larger than the gyroradius. In some magnetic configurations, almost complete linear stability may be attainable in large parts of the parameter space.