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More physics at the boundaries of a topological lattice remains to be explored for future applications of topological edge states. This work investigates the stability of topological edge states in the presence of a moving impurity. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Baikang Yuan , Jiangbin Gong

Charge transport in topological insulators is primarily characterised by so-called topologically projected helical edge states, where charge carriers are correlated in spin and momentum. In principle, dissipation-less current can be carried…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Jesse A. Vaitkus , Cong Son Ho , Jared H. Cole

Recent nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations have shown that impurities can strongly modify the turbulent heat flux in stellarator plasmas. Here, the ion-temperature-gradient (ITG) dispersion relation in a plasma containing impurities is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Ivan Calvo , Felix I. Parra , Hanne Thienpondt , Jose Manuel Garcia-Regaña

Electron transport in Ge at various temperatures down to 20 mK has been investigated using particle Monte Carlo simulation taking into account ionized impurity and inelastic phonon scattering. The simulations account for the essential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 V. Aubry-Fortuna , P. Dollfus

Motivated by the experimental measurement of electrical and hall conductivity, thermopower and Nernst effect, we calculate the longitudinal and transverse electrical and heat transport in graphene in the presence of unitary scatterers as…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Vincent Ugarte , Vivek Aji , C. M. Varma

The turbulent transport of minority species/impurities is investigated in 2D drift-wave turbulence as well as in 3D toroidal drift-Alfven edge turbulence. The full effects of perpendicular and -- in 3D -- parallel advection are kept for the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Volker Naulin , Martin Priego Wood , Jens Juul Rasmussen

The observation of distinct peaks in tokamak core reflectometry measurements - named quasi-coherent-modes (QCMs) - are identified as a signature of Trapped-Electron-Mode (TEM) turbulence [H. Arnichand et al. 2016 Plasma Phys. Control.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-07-13 J. Citrin , H. Arnichand , J. Bernardo , C. Bourdelle , X. Garbet , F. Jenko , S. Hacquin , M. J. Pueschel , R. Sabot

We investigate the transport behavior of tungsten impurities with finite inertia in drift-wave turbulence using the Hasegawa-Wakatani model. Unlike previous tracer-based models, our simulations reveal a transition to non-diffusive dynamics…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Zetao Lin , Benjamin Kadoch , Sadruddin Benkadda , Kai Schneider

We study the effects of impurity scattering on the low energy edge state dynamic s for a broad class of quantum Hall fluids at filling factor $\nu =n/(np+1)$, for integer $n$ and even integer $p$. When $p$ is positive all $n$ of the edge…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 C. L. Kane , M. P. A. Fisher

By taking advantage of the trace approximation, one can gain an enormous computational advantage when solving for the global turbulent transport of impurities. In particular, this makes feasible the study of non-Maxwellian transport coupled…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 George J. Wilkie , Istvan Pusztai , Ian G. Abel , William Dorland , Tünde Fülöp

We have designed a simple multi-scale method that identifies turbulent motions in hydrodynamical grid simulations. The method does not assmume ant a-priori coherence scale to distinguish laminar and turbulent flows. Instead, the local mean…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 F. Vazza , E. Roediger , M. Brueggen

We study in this work the transport properties of an impurity immersed in a granular gas under stationary nonlinear Couette flow. The starting point is a kinetic model for low-density granular mixtures recently proposed by the authors [Vega…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-09-05 F. Vega Reyes , V. Garzo , A. Santos

Microscale turbulence drives not only particle and heat transport but also energy exchange between different particle species. Previous local gyrokinetic studies have shown that turbulent energy exchange can exceed collisional exchange in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 T. Kato , H. Sugama , M. Honda

The theoretical investigation of relevant turbulent transport mechanisms in H-mode pedestals is a great scientific and numerical challenge. In this study, we address this challenge by global, nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations of a full…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-03-21 L. A. Leppin , T. Görler , M. Cavedon , M. G. Dunne , E. Wolfrum , F. Jenko , the ASDEX Upgrade Team

Turbulence induced by the ion temperature gradient (ITG) is investigated in the helical and axisymmetric plasma states of a reversed field pinch device by means of gyrokinetic calculations. The two magnetic configurations are systematically…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 I. Predebon , P. Xanthopoulos

We investigate the effects of charged impurity distributions and carrier-carrier interactions on electronic transport in graphene on SiO$_2$ by employing a self-consistent coupled simulation of carrier transport and electrodynamics. We show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-21 N. Sule , S. C. Hagness , I. Knezevic

We theoretically investigate the electron transport properties for a semiconductor quantum wire containing a single finite-size attractive impurity under an external terahertz electromagnetic field illumination in the ballistic limit.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Guanghui Zhou , Yuan Li , Fang Cheng , Wenfu Liao

We calculate the temperature-dependent charge carrier transport of bilayer graphene (BLG) impacted by Coulomb impurity scattering within the random phase approximation. We find the polarizability is equal to the density of states at zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-18 Min Lv , Shaolong Wan

We present gyrokinetic simulations with the GENE code addressing the near-edge region of an L-mode plasma in the DIII-D tokamak. At radial position $\rho=0.80$, simulations with the ion temperature gradient increased by $40\%$ above the…

In this paper, an overview of the impurity transport for three H-mode plasmas in the upcoming SPARC tokamak has been provided. The simulations have been performed within the ASTRA+STRAHL framework, using FACIT and TGLF-SAT2 to predict,…