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We assess runaway-electron (RE) generation in ITER disruptions mitigated by shattered pellet injection (SPI) using improved physics modelling in the 1D disruption simulation framework Dream. To this end, we extend Dream with four…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 L. Votta , F. J. Artola , E. Nardon , O. Vallhagen , M. Hoppe

The disruption and runaway electron analysis model code was extended to include tungsten impurities in disruption simulations with the aim of studying the runaway electron (RE) generation. This study investigates RE current sensitivity on…

Avoidance of the harmful effects of runaway electrons (REs) in plasma-terminating disruptions is pivotal in the design of safety systems for magnetic fusion devices. Here, we describe a computationally efficient numerical tool, that allows…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 M. Hoppe , O. Embreus , T. Fülöp

This Roadmap article addresses the critical and multifaceted challenge of plasma-facing component (PFC) damage caused by runaway electrons (REs) in tokamaks, a phenomenon that poses a significant threat to the viability and longevity of…

Plasma current instabilities can destabilize the plasma discharge and cool the plasma rapidly. In such $\textit{disruptions}$ or in the start-up phase of the reactor, inductive electric fields are generated which accelerate electrons to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Benjamin Buchholz

During disruptions in fusion-grade tokamaks like ITER, large electric fields are induced following the thermal quench (TQ) period which can generate a substantial amount of Runaway Electrons (REs) that can carry up to 10 MA current with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-03-02 Ansh Patel , Santosh P. Pandya

We develop a high-performance tensor-based simulator for random quantum circuits(RQCs) on the new Sunway supercomputer. Our major innovations include: (1) a near-optimal slicing scheme, and a path-optimization strategy that considers both…

Runaways are suprathermal electrons having sufficiently high energy to be continuously accelerated up to tens of MeV by a driving electric field [1]. Highly energetic runaway electron (RE) beams capable of damaging the tokamak first wall…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-08-14 Cristian Sommariva , Eric Nardon , Peter Beyer , Matthias Hoelzl , Guido Huijsman

$\textit{Tokamak disruptions}$ can give rise to the $\textit{runaway phenomenon}$, which is typical in plasma physics and describes the almost unbound acceleration of electrons to relativistic velocities and can lead to the formation of a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-09-21 Benjamin Buchholz

Runaway electrons (REs) can be generated in tokamak plasmas if the accelerating force from the toroidal electric field exceeds the collisional drag force due to Coulomb collisions with the background plasma. In ITER, disruptions are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-03-23 E. Nilsson , J. Decker , Y. Peysson , R. S. Granetz , F. Saint-Laurent , M. Vlainic

Runaway electrons (REs) present a high-priority issue for ITER but little is known about the extent to which RE generation is affected by the stochastic field intrinsic to disrupting plasmas. RE generation can be modelled with reduced…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-07-06 Konsta Särkimäki , Javier Artola , Matthias Hoelzl

We present the first successful simulation of a induced disruption in ASDEX Upgrade from massive material injection (MMI) up to established runaway electron (RE) beam, thus covering pre-thermal quench, thermal quench and current quench (CQ)…

Classical simulation of quantum computation is vital for verifying quantum devices and assessing quantum algorithms. We present a new quantum circuit simulator developed on the Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer. Compared with other…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-24 Zhimin Wang , Zhaoyun Chen , Shengbin Wang , Wendong Li , Yongjian Gu , Guoping Guo , Zhiqiang Wei

The transition of the Divertor Tokamak Test (DTT) facility from its initial commissioning phase (Day-0, plasma current $I_{p}=2$ MA) to the full power scenario ($I_{p}=5.5$ MA) introduces a critical shift in the dynamics of runaway…

We present two-dimensional global simulations of mitigated and vertically unstable disruptions in ITER in the presence of runaway electrons. An elongated plasma in free-boundary equilibrium is subjected to an artificial thermal quench and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-01-29 V. Bandaru , M. Hoelzl , F. J. Artola , M. Lehnen , JOREK team

A revised version of the massively parallel simulator of a universal quantum computer, described in this journal eleven years ago, is used to benchmark various gate-based quantum algorithms on some of the most powerful supercomputers that…

Tokamak start-up is characterized by low electron densities and strong electric fields, in order to quickly raise the plasma current and temperature, allowing the plasma to fully ionize and magnetic flux surfaces to form. Such conditions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-06-30 M. Hoppe , I. Ekmark , E. Berger , T. Fülöp

Runaway electrons (RE) generated during magnetic disruptions present a major threat to the safe operation of plasma nuclear fusion reactors. A critical aspect of understanding RE dynamics is to calculate the runaway probability, i.e., the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Minglei Yang , Guannan Zhang , Diego del-Castillo-Negrete , Miroslav Stoyanov , Matthew Beidler

Relativistic runaway electrons are a major concern in tokamaks. The European framework for Integrated Modelling (EU-IM), facilitates the integration of different plasma simulation tools by providing a standard data structure for…

With the rapid progress made by industry and academia, quantum computers with dozens of qubits or even larger size are being realized. However, the fidelity of existing quantum computers often sharply decreases as the circuit depth…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-14 Riling Li , Bujiao Wu , Mingsheng Ying , Xiaoming Sun , Guangwen Yang
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