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This paper deals with the numerical reconstruction of the plasma current density in a Tokamak and of its equilibrium. The problem consists in the identification of a non-linear source in the 2D Grad-Shafranov equation, which governs the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-26 Jacques Blum , Cédric Boulbe , Blaise Faugeras

We apply theoretically open-loop quantum optimal control techniques to provide methods for the verification of various quantum coherent transport mechanisms in natural and artificial light-harvesting complexes under realistic experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-01 Filippo Caruso , Simone Montangero , Tommaso Calarco , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

Living organisms interact with their surroundings in a closed-loop fashion, where sensory inputs dictate the initiation and termination of behaviours. Even simple animals are able to develop and execute complex plans, which has not yet been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Giulia Lafratta , Bernd Porr , Christopher Chandler , Alice Miller

The electric potential is an essential quantity for the confinement process of tokamak plasmas, with important impact on the performances of fusion reactors. Understanding its evolution in the peripheral region - the part of the plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Andrea Mentrelli , Claudia Negulescu

With an increasing complexity of nanoscopic systems and the modeling thereof, new theoretical tools are needed for a reliable calculation of complex systems with strong electronic correlations. To this end, we propose a new approach based…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-06-22 Angelo Valli , Giorgio Sangiovanni , Olle Gunnarsson , Alessandro Toschi , Karsten Held

In this work, a quasi-linear model for plasma flow response to the resonant magnetic perturbation (RMP) in a tokamak has been rigorously developed in the resistive-inertial (RI) and viscous-resistive (VR) regimes purely from the two-field…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Wenlong Huang , Ping Zhu , Hui Chen

A comprehensive gyrokinetic simulation model has been implemented in the global toroidal gyrokinetic code (GTC) and verified for studying low-frequency waves and turbulence in magnetic fusion plasmas by treating all kinetic-MHD processes on…

In this paper, we present an efficient algorithm for the long time behavior of plasma simulations. We will focus on 4D drift-kinetic model, where the plasma's motion occurs in the plane perpendicular to the magnetic field and can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Francis Filbet , Chang Yang

In magnetically confined plasmas used in Tokamak, turbulence is responsible for specific transport that limits the performance of this kind of reactors. Gyrokinetic simulations are able to capture ion and electron turbulence that give rise…

A machine learning approach has been implemented to measure the electron temperature directly from the emission spectra of a tokamak plasma. This approach utilized a neural network (NN) trained on a dataset of 1865 time slices from…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 C. M. Samuell , A. G. Mclean , C. A. Johnson , F. Glass , A. E. Jaervinen

The controlled ramp down of the toroidal plasma current in the ITER tokamak is simulated using a simple model that employs cylindrical geometry. The magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) stability of the plasma throughout the whole current ramp is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Richard Fitzpatrick

The simulation of turbulence in the boundary region of a tokamak is crucial for understanding and optimizing the performance of fusion reactors. In this work, the use of low-rank linear algebra techniques is shown to enhance the efficiency…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Margherita Guido , Daniel Kressner , Davide Mancini , Paolo Ricci

Dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) has emerged as a popular data-driven modeling approach to identifying spatio-temporal coherent structures in dynamical systems, owing to its strong relation with the Koopman operator. For dynamical systems…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-26 Manu Krishnan , Serkan Gugercin , Pablo A. Tarazaga

We introduce the family of limited model information control design methods, which construct controllers by accessing the plant's model in a constrained way, according to a given design graph. We investigate the closed-loop performance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-01-08 Farhad Farokhi , Cedric Langbort , Karl H. Johansson

In the presented field line map approach the simulation domain of a tokamak is covered with a cylindrical grid, which is Cartesian within poloidal planes. Standard finite-difference methods can be used for the discretisation of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-11 Andreas Stegmeir , David Coster , Omar Maj , Klaus Hallatschek , Karl Lackner

The constraint coordinate-momentum \textit{phase space} (CPS) has recently been developed to study nonadiabatic dynamics in gas-phase and condensed-phase molecular systems. Although the CPS formulation is exact for describing the discrete…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Jiaji Zhang , Jian Liu , Lipeng Chen

The EXL-50U spherical tokamak was built by Energy iNNovation to develop technologies for proton-boron fusion in spherical tokamaks (Liu et al., Phys. Plasmas 2024). We present a conceptual design of the Doppler backscattering (DBS)…

A highly elongated plasma is desirable in order to increase plasma pressure and energy confinement to maximize fusion power output. However, there is a limit to the maximum achievable elongation which is set by vertical instabilities driven…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Jungpyo Lee , Jeffrey P. Freidberg , Antoine J. Cerfon , Martin Greenwald

We reformulate the full quantum dynamics of spin systems using a phase space representation based on SU(2) coherent states which generates an exact mapping of the dynamics of any spin system onto a set of stochastic differential equations.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-10 Ray Ng , Piotr Deuar , Erik Sorensen

We propose an approach to online model adaptation and control in the challenging case of hybrid and discontinuous dynamics where actions may lead to difficult-to-escape "trap" states, under a given controller. We first learn dynamics for a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Sheng Zhong , Zhenyuan Zhang , Nima Fazeli , Dmitry Berenson