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In this work, gyrokinetic theory of drift waves (DWs) self-regulation via the forced driven zonal flow (ZF) is presented, and finite diamagnetic drift frequency due to plasma nonuniformity is shown to play dominant role in ZF forced…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Ningfei Chen , Liu Chen , Fulvio Zonca , Zhiyong Qiu

Generation of Alfv\'en and slow magneto-acoustic waves in weakly ionized atmospheres by excitation of the charges-only component of the two fluid (charges and neutrals) plasma is shown to be more or less efficient depending on the energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-16 Paul S. Cally

In this work the finite $\beta$-effects of an electron branch of the geodesic acoustic mode (el-GAM) driven by electron temperature gradient (ETG) modes is presented. The work is based on a fluid description of the ETG mode retaining…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-12-23 Johan Anderson , Hans Nordman , Andreas Skyman , Raghvendra Singh , Predhiman Kaw

We show that zonal flow can be preferentially excited by intermediate-scale toroidal electron temperature gradient (ETG) turbulence in tokamak plasmas. Previous theoretical studies that yielded an opposite conclusion assumed a fluid…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Haotian Chen , Stefan Tirkas , Scott E. Parker

We investigate the thermodynamic limit of the one-dimensional ferromagnetic XXZ model with twisted (or antiperiodic ) boundary condition. It is shown that the distribution of the Bethe roots of the inhomogeneous Bethe Ansatz equations…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 Yi Qiao , Zhirong Xin , Kun Hao , Junpeng Cao , Wen-Li Yang , Kangjie Shi , Yupeng Wang

An analytical model for zonal flow generation by toroidal ion-temperature-gradient (ITG) modes, including finite $\beta$ electromagnetic effects, is derived. The derivation is based on a fluid model for ions and electrons and takes into…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Johan Anderson , Hans Nordman , Rameswar Singh , Raghvendra Singh

The achievement of sustained nuclear fusion in magnetically confined plasma relies on efficient confinement of high-energy ions produced by the fusion reaction. Such particles can excite Alfven Eigenmodes (AEs), which significantly degrade…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 Maxime Lesur

Linear and nonlinear modelling of Alfv\'enic instabilities, most notably toroidal Alfv\'en eigenmodes (TAEs), obtained by using the global nonlinear electromagnetic gyrokinetic model of the code ORB5 are presented for the 15 MA scenario of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-12-11 T. Hayward-Schneider , Ph. Lauber , A. Bottino , Z. X. Lu

A self-consistent particle-in-cell simulation study is performed to investigate the effect of driving frequency on the electric field non-linearity, electron heating mechanism and electron energy distribution function (EEDF) in a low…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Sarveshwar Sharma , Nishant Sirse , Animesh Kuley , Miles M Turner

The dynamical response of a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) is formulated consistently with quantum field theory and is numerically evaluated. We regard the BEC as a manifestation of the breaking of the global phase symmetry. Then,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Makoto Mine , Tomoi Koide , Masahiko Okumura , Yoshiya Yamanaka

Magnetic reconnection in solar flares can efficiently generate non-thermal electron beams. The energetic electrons can, in turn, cause radio waves through microscopic plasma instabilities as they propagate through the ambient plasma along…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 Xin Yao , Patricio Muñoz , Jörg Büchner , Jan Benáček , Siming Liu , Xiaowei Zhou

The emergent electric field (EEF) is a fictitious electric field acting on conduction electrons through the Berry phase mechanism. The EEF is generated by the dynamics of noncollinear spin configurations and becomes nonzero even in one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-12 Kotaro Shimizu , Shun Okumura , Yasuyuki Kato , Yukitoshi Motome

Nonlinear simulations of Alfv\'en modes (AM) driven by energetic particles (EP) in the presence of turbulence are performed with the gyrokinetic particle-in-cell code ORB5. The AMs carry a heat flux, and consequently they nonlinearly modify…

We present numerical simulations of fully nonlinear drift wave-zonal flow (DW-ZF) turbulence systems in a nonuniform magnetoplasma. In our model, the drift wave (DW) dynamics is pseudo-three-dimensional (pseudo-3D) and accounts for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 P. K. Shukla , Dastgeer Shaikh

Measuring terahertz waveforms in terahertz spectroscopy often relies on electrooptic sampling employing a ZnTe crystal. Although the nonlinearities in such zincblende semiconductors induced by intense terahertz pulses have been studied at…

Two novel nonlinear mode coupling processes for reversed shear Alfven eigenmode (RSAE) nonlinear saturation are proposed and investigated. In the first process, RSAE nonlinearly couples to a co-propagating toroidal Alfven eigenmode (TAE)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-03-18 Shizhao Wei , Yahui Wang , Peiwan Shi , Wei Chen , Ningfei Chen , Zhiyong Qiu

The nonlinear dynamics of energetic-particle (EP) driven geodesic acoustic modes (EGAM) is investigated here. A numerical analysis with the global gyrokinetic particle-in-cell code ORB5 is performed, and the results are interpreted with the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 A. Biancalani , I. Chavdarovski , Z. Qiu , A. Bottino , D. Del Sarto , A. Ghizzo , O. Gurcan , P. Morel , I. Novikau

Global electromagnetic gyrokinetic simulations are performed with the Particle-in-Cell code ORB5 for an ITER Pre-Fusion-Power-Operation (PFPO) plasma scenario, with half-field (2.65 T) and half-current (7.5 MA). We report on a 'multi-scale'…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 T. Hayward-Schneider , Ph. Lauber , A. Bottino , A. Mishchenko

AC Josephson current density in a Josephson junction with DC bias is spatially modulated by an external magnetic field, and induces an electromagnetic (EM) field inside the junction. The current-voltage ($I$-$V$) curve exhibits peaks due to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-06-12 S. Hikino , M. Mori , S. Maekawa

We report the detection of novel zero-resistance states induced by electromagnetic wave excitation in ultra high mobility GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure devices, at low magnetic fields, $B$, in the large filling factor limit. Vanishing…

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