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Many ion species commonly used for laser-cooled ion trapping studies have a low-lying metastable 2D3/2 state that can become populated due to spontaneous emission from the 2P1/2 excited state. This requires a repumper laser to maintain the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-02-04 T. Lindvall , T. Fordell , I. Tittonen , M. Merimaa

Nonlinear self-interaction of finite amplitude energetic particle induced geodesic acoustic mode (EGAM) is investigated using nonlinear gyrokinetic theory. It is found that both zero frequency zonal flow(ZFZF) and second harmonic can be…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Zhiyong Qiu , Ilija Chavdarovski , Alessandro Biancalani , Jintao Cao

A general theoretical framework for investigating nonlinear dynamics of phase space zonal structures is presented in this work. It is then, more specifically, applied to the limit where the nonlinear evolution time scale is smaller or…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Fulvio Zonca , Liu Chen , Sergio Briguglio , Giuliana Fogaccia , Gregorio Vlad , Xin Wang

The report reviews the problem of topological coherent modes, which are nonlinear collective states of Bose-condensed atoms. Such modes can be generated by means of alternating external fields, whose frequencies are in resonance with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. I. Yukalov , K. -P. Marzlin , E. P. Yukalova , V. S. Bagnato

Parametric excitation in coupled mechanical systems has enabled advances in sensing, computation, and phonon control. The function of distinct phase modes using parametric driving remains insufficiently explored. Here, we investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Vishnu Kumar , Nishta Arora , Bhargavi B. A. , Akshay Naik , Saurabh A. Chandorkar

A closed-form analytical solution is found for the nonlinear dynamics of isolated, near-threshold waves in the presence of strong scattering. The proposed solution can be useful in verifying codes across several disciplines, including…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-17 Vinicius Duarte , Nikolai Gorelenkov

We performed three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of shear Alfven waves in a full field line system with magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling and plasma non-uniformities. Feedback instability of the Alfven resonant modes showed…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yasutaka Hiraki

Geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs) are studied, for the first time, including all poloidal mode $(m)$ couplings using drift reduced fluid equations. The nearest neighbor coupling pattern, due to geodesic curvature, leads to a semi-infinite…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-12-21 Rameswar Singh , Ö D Gürcan , X Garbet , P Hennequin , L Vermare , P Morel , R Singh

Rogue waves (RWs) are unexpectedly strong excitations emerging from an otherwise tranquil background. The nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLSE), a ubiquitous model with wide applications to fluid mechanics, optics and plasmas, exhibits…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-01-07 H. N. Chan , B. A. Malomed , K. W. Chow , E. Ding

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs), as Rayleigh waves generated by elastic media, have been used in gyroscopes for over 40 years due to their unique propagation characteristics. However, their working principle, based on Coriolis effects, has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Y. T. Zhu , Shibei Xue , Fangfang Ju , Haidong Yuan

This paper presents a dedicated study of plasma-antenna (PA) coupling with the Alfven Eigenmode Active Diagnostic (AEAD) in JET. Stable AEs and their resonant frequencies f, damping rates $\gamma$ < 0, and toroidal mode numbers n are…

The two-field equations governing fully nonlinear dynamics of the drift wave (DW) and geodesic acoustic mode (GAM) in the toroidal geometry are derived in nonlinear gyrokinetic framework. Two stages with distinctive features are identified…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Ningfei Chen , Shizhao Wei , Guangyu Wei , Zhiyong Qiu

We report topological nonlinear optics with spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate in a cavity. The cavity is driven by a pump laser and weak probe laser which excite Bose-Einstein condensate to an intermediate storage level, where the…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-13 Kashif Ammar Yasir , Lin Zhuang , Wu-Ming Liu

In this work, an implicit scheme for particle-in-cell/Fourier electromagnetic simulations is developed and applied to studies of Alfv\'en waves in one dimension and three-dimensional tokamak plasmas. An analytical treatment is introduced to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Z. X. Lu , G. Meng , M. Hoelzl , Ph. Lauber

We have calculated the resonant and nonresonant contributions to attosecond impulsive stimulated electronic Raman scattering (SERS) in regions of autoionizing transitions. Comparison with Multiconfiguration Time-Dependent Hartree-Fock…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-10-06 Matthew R. Ware , Philip H. Bucksbaum , James P. Cryan , Daniel J. Haxton

Large-amplitude Alfv\'en waves are ubiquitous in space plasmas and a main component of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in the heliosphere. As pump waves they are prone to parametric instability by which they can generate cyclotron and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-01-16 Eckart Marsch , Daniel Verscharen

This work concerns the computation of ground states of two-component spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates (SO-coupled BECs), modelled by a coupled nonlinear eigenvalue problem of Gross-Pitaevskii type. Spin-orbit coupling gives rise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Patrick Henning , Laura Huynh

A mechanism for fast magnetic reconnection in collisionless plasma is studied for understanding sawtooth collapse in tokamak discharges. Nonlinear growth of the tearing mode driven by electron inertia is analytically estimated by invoking…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-10-03 M. Hirota , P. J. Morrison , Y. Ishii , M. Yagi , N. Aiba

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

The nonlinear interaction between counterpropagating Alfven waves is the physical mechanism underlying the cascade of energy to small scales in astrophysical plasma turbulence. Beginning with the equations for incompressible MHD, an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Gregory G. Howes , Kevin D. Nielson
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