Stochastic heating
= Stochastic heating
Increase of particle random <kinetic energy> due to decorrelating electromagnetic kicks. In the simple unscreened electrostatic <white noise> limit it is <velocity-space diffusion> with constant coefficient and heating rate $mnD$. In other <plasma> settings the same term can refer to orbit stochasticity produced by spatial structure or overlapping <resonances>; its precise mechanism must be stated.