Abstract

A path integral method is applied to a statistical analysis of electron transport described as a Langevin equation in a disturbed magnetic field line structure; in particular, the transition probability of electrons strongly tied to field lines is considered. When the effect of the Coulomb collisions is interpreted as the Gaussian white noise in configuration space, the radial transport of electrons in the chaotic field line structure is different from Brownian diffusion with the diffusion coefficient of field lines, even if a sufficiently small diffusion coefficient of the collisions is considered.

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