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Advancements in onboard computing mean remote sensing agents can employ state-of-the-art computer vision and machine learning at the edge. These capabilities can be leveraged to unlock new rare, transient, and pinpoint measurements of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Itai Zilberstein , Alberto Candela , Steve Chien

Taking advantage of the flexibility of the variational method with coordinate transformations, we derive a self-consistent set of equations of motion from a discretized Lagrangian to study kinetic plasmas using a Fourier decomposed…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-11-04 A. B. Stamm , B. A. Shadwick

Generative modeling can be formulated as learning a mapping f such that its pushforward distribution matches the data distribution. The pushforward behavior can be carried out iteratively at inference time, for example in diffusion and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Mingyang Deng , He Li , Tianhong Li , Yilun Du , Kaiming He

Recently, a new paradigm named \emph{drifting model} has been proposed for mapping distributions, which achieves the SOTA image generation performance over ImageNet via one-step neural functional evaluation (NFE). The basic idea is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Guoqiang Zhang , Kenta Niwa , W. Bastiaan Kleijn

Astrophysical plasmas in relativistic spacetimes, such as black hole accretion flows, are often weakly collisional and require kinetic modeling to capture non-local transport and particle acceleration. However, the extreme scale separation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-17 Tyler Trent , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Özel

Drift wave is a prominent mode of a magnetized plasma of inhomogeneous density. It plays an important role in the transport of particles, energy and momentum perpendicular to the ambient magnetic field. The frequency of this mode is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-07 Atul Kumar , Amita Das , Predhiman Kaw

At the core of some of the most important problems in plasma physics -- from controlled nuclear fusion to the acceleration of cosmic rays -- is the challenge to describe nonlinear, multi-scale plasma dynamics. The development of reduced…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-09-13 E. Paulo Alves , Frederico Fiuza

We propose a novel method of determination of the dust particle spatial distribution in dust clouds that form in three-dimensional (3D) complex plasmas under microgravity conditions. The method utilizes the data obtained during the 3D…

Detailed deterministic derivation of the kinetic equations for the relativistic plasmas is given. Focus is made on the dynamic of one-coordinate distribution functions of various tensor dimensions, but the closed set of kinetic equations is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Pavel A. Andreev

We present a new approach to calculate the particle distribution function about relativistic shocks including synchrotron losses using the method of lines with an explicit finite difference scheme. A steady, continuous, one dimensional…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Sean Delaney , Paul Dempsey , Peter Duffy , Turlough P. Downes

Plasma waves with frequencies close to the particular gyrofrequencies of the charged particles in the plasma lose energy due to cyclotron damping. We briefly discuss the gyro-resonance of low frequency plasma waves and ions particularly…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-02-20 Cedric Schreiner , Patrick Kilian , Felix Spanier

The purpose of this paper is to develop a simplified model as the modeling of the magnetized plasmas. The starting point is an assumption that the distribution of the ensemble of charged particles in the same species is homogeneous over…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-07-25 Shuangxi Zhang

We consider nonparametric invariant density and drift estimation for a class of multidimensional degenerate resp. hypoelliptic diffusion processes, so-called stochastic damping Hamiltonian systems or kinetic diffusions, under anisotropic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-24 Niklas Dexheimer , Claudia Strauch

In this paper, a physics-oriented stochastic kinetic scheme will be developed that includes random inputs from both flow and electromagnetic fields via a hybridization of stochastic Galerkin and collocation methods. Based on the BGK-type…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Tianbai Xiao , Martin Frank

Drifting Models have emerged as a new paradigm for one-step generative modeling, achieving strong image quality without iterative inference. The premise is to replace the iterative denoising process in diffusion models with a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Ali Falahati , Elliot Creager , Gautam Kamath , Shubhankar Mohapatra

A multispecies, collisionless plasma is modeled by the Vlasov-Poisson system. Assuming that the electric field decays with sufficient rapidity as $t \to\infty$, we show that the velocity characteristics and spatial averages of the particle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Stephen Pankavich

In this work, we propose a data-driven method to discover the latent space and learn the corresponding latent dynamics for a collisional-radiative (CR) model in radiative plasma simulations. The CR model, consisting of high-dimensional…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Xuping Xie , Qi Tang , Xianzhu Tang

Using the methods of kinetic theory expressions for the diffusion and drift coefficients for a cold Fermi system are obtained. Their dependences on the momentum are calculated for the step distribution function as well as in the case of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-19 Sergiy V. Lukyanov

We study nonparametric density estimation in non-stationary drift settings. Given a sequence of independent samples taken from a distribution that gradually changes in time, the goal is to compute the best estimate for the current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Alessio Mazzetto , Eli Upfal

An algorithm to obtain data-driven models of oscillatory phenomena in plasma space propulsion systems is presented, based on sparse regression (SINDy) and Pareto front analysis. The algorithm can incorporate physical constraints, use data…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 B. Bayón-Buján , M. Merino