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Precipitates are main microstructural features to provide high temperature creep strength and radiation resistance in structural materials for fusion energy systems. However, the mechanisms of precipitate stability under irradiation in…
It has been recently argued that inverse-beta nuclear transmutations might occur at an impressively high rate in a thin layer at the metallic hydride surface under specific conditions. In this note we present a calculation of the…
The transverse momentum (pt) dependence of J/psi production in heavy ion collisions is investigated in a transport model with both initial production and continuous regeneration of charmonia. The competition between the two production…
Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have recently emerged as promising candidates for future electronics and optoelectronics. While most of TMDs are intrinsic n-type semiconductors due to electron donating which…
The impact of impurities on the generation of zonal flow (ZF) driven by collisonless trapped electron mode (CTEM) turbulence in deuterium (D)-tritium (T) plasmas is investigated. The expression for ZF growth rate with impurities is derived…
$\beta$-Tungsten ($\beta$-W), an A15 cubic phase of tungsten, exhibits a giant spin Hall angle compared to its bcc-phase $\alpha$-Tungsten ($\alpha$-W), making high-quality $\beta$-W films desirable for spintronic applications. We report…
We investigate the electronic structure of tungsten ditelluride (WTe$_2$) flakes with different thicknesses in magneto-transport studies. The temperature-dependent resistance and magnetoresistance (MR) measurements both confirm the breaking…
We hypothesize that in a non-metallic crystalline structure under extreme pressures, atomic wavefunctions deform to adopt a reduced rotational symmetry consistent with minimizing interstitial space in the crystal. We exemplify with a simple…
Global gyrokinetic simulations find a strong helically-trapped electron mode (HTEM) driven by density gradients in the optimized stellarator W7-X fusion experiment. The eigenmode structure localizes in the inner side of the torus with an…
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The configuration interaction approach to nuclear structure uses the effective Hamiltonian in a finite orbital space. The various parts of this Hamiltonian and their interplay are responsible for specific features of physics including the…
The universality of electric charge as a quantum number allows thermoelectric properties to manifest across diverse systems, starting from a hot quantum chromodynamic matter in heavy-ion collisions at a high energy scale to semiconductors…
Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a class of two-dimensional (2D) materials been widely studied for emerging electronic properties. In this work, we use computational simulations to examine the water adsorption on TMDs…
Many ceramic and hybrid metal-organic framework materials show negative thermal expansion (NTE): they \textit{contract} instead of expanding on heating \cite{Barrera_Miller_Lind_Romao 2005}. Their structures are invariably characterised as…
Tungsten (W) exhibits desirable properties for extreme applications, such as the divertor in magnetic fusion reactors, but its practicality remains limited due to poor formability and insufficient irradiation resistance. In this work, we…
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