Piecewise omnigenous stellarators with zero bootstrap current
Plasma Physics
2025-08-07 v3
Abstract
Until now, quasi-isodynamic magnetic fields have been the only known stellarator configurations that, at low collisionality, give small radial neoclassical transport and zero bootstrap current for arbitrary plasma profiles, the latter facilitating control of the magnetic configuration. The recently introduced notion of piecewise omnigenous fields has enormously broadened the space of stellarator configurations with small radial neoclassical transport. In this Letter, the existence of piecewise omnigenous fields that give zero bootstrap current is proven analytically and confirmed numerically. These results establish piecewise omnigenity as an alternative approach to stellarator reactor design.
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@article{arxiv.2505.02546,
title = {Piecewise omnigenous stellarators with zero bootstrap current},
author = {Ivan Calvo and Jose Luis Velasco and Per Helander and Felix I. Parra},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.02546},
year = {2025}
}
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7 pages