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The near-axis description of optimised stellarator fields has proven to be a powerful tool both for design and understanding of this magnetic confinement concept. The description consists of an asymptotic model of the equilibrium in the…
A new quasi-isodynamic stellarator configuration optimized for the confinement of energetic ions at low plasma $\beta$ is obtained. The numerical optimization is carried out using the STELLOPT suite of codes. New proxies to measure…
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Using large deviation theory and principles of stochastic optimal control, we show that rare molecular dynamics trajectories conditioned on assembling a specific target structure encode a set of interactions and external forces that lead to…
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Flag codes are multishot network codes consisting of sequences of nested subspaces (flags) of a vector space $\mathbb{F}_q^n$, where $q$ is a prime power and $\mathbb{F}_q$, the finite field of size $q$. In this paper we study the…