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Nonlinear drift-tearing magnetic islands are studied numerically with a four-field model that includes the parallel ion dynamics. In certain regions of the parameter space, multiple solutions are found. In particular, linearly stable drift-tearing perturbations can grow to finite size magnetic islands when the amplitude of the initial perturbation is sufficiently large.
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Ottaviani et al. (2004) studied this question.
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