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Good magnetic surfaces, as opposed to magnetic islands and chaotic field lines, are generally desirable for stellarators. In previous work, M. Landreman et al. [Phys. of Plasmas 28, 092505 (2021)] showed that equilibria computed by the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 A. Baillod , J. Loizu , J. P. Graves , M. Landreman

The rapid progress in precisely designing the surface decoration of patchy colloidal particles offers a new, yet unexperienced freedom to create building entities for larger, more complex structures in soft matter systems. However, it is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-06-14 G. Doppelbauer , E. G. Noya , E. Bianchi , G. Kahl

In recent years many efforts have been undertaken to simplify coil designs for stellarators due to the difficulties in fabricating non-planar coils. The FOCUS code removes the need for a winding surface and represents the coils as arbitrary…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-04-20 N. Lonigro , C. Zhu

Fully localised patterns involving cellular hexagons or squares have been found experimentally and numerically in various continuum models. However, there is currently no mathematical theory for the emergence of these localised cellular…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Dan J. Hill , Jason J. Bramburger , David J. B. Lloyd

Beam polarisation is an integral part of the physics case of future Linear Colliders. In this contribution, important examples from Higgs coupling measurements, top and electroweak physics at high energies, the Z pole program as well as…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-02-10 Jenny List

In this paper we derive an expression for the static electric polarizability of a particle bound by a finite potential well without the explicit use of the continuum states in our calculations. This will be accomplished by employing the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. A. Maize , M. A. Antonacci

Magnetic confinement devices for nuclear fusion can be large and expensive. Compact stellarators are promising candidates for costreduction, but introduce new difficulties: confinement in smaller volumes requires higher magnetic field,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-13 Rémi Robin , Francesco Volpe

A new paradigm for rapid stellarator configuration design has been recently demonstrated, in which the shapes of quasisymmetric or omnigenous flux surfaces are computed directly using an expansion in small distance from the magnetic axis.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-03-08 Matt Landreman

Potential functionals have been introduced recently as an important tool for the analysis of coupled scalar systems (e.g. density evolution equations). In this contribution, we investigate interesting properties of this potential. Using the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-16 Rafah El-Khatib , Nicolas Macris , Tom Richardson , Rüdiger Urbanke

A problem arising in several engineering areas is to design magnets outside a volume that produce a desired magnetic field inside it. One instance of this problem is stellarator design, where it has recently been shown that permanent…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Matt Landreman , Caoxiang Zhu

We describe a novel technique that renders theories of $N$ axions tractable, and more generally can be used to efficiently analyze a large class of periodic potentials of arbitrary dimension. Such potentials are complex energy landscapes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Thomas C. Bachlechner , Kate Eckerle , Oliver Janssen , Matthew Kleban

We introduce and study a novel design for a ratchet potential for soliton excitations. The potential is implemented by means of an array of point-like (delta) inhomogeneities in an otherwise homogeneous potential. We develop a collective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Luis Morales-Molina , Franz G. Mertens , Angel Sanchez

The study of self-gravitating stellar systems has provided important hints to develop tools of analytical mechanics. In the present contribution we review how to exploit detuned resonant normal forms to extract information on several…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Giuseppe Pucacco

The quark-gluon sea in the hadrons is considered as periodically correlated. Energy levels of Shrodinger equation with harmonic potential is used for describing of the spectrum of hadron masses. In the considered cases the effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-05-28 Rafael Tumanyan

Recently a variational integrator for ideal magnetohydrodynamics in Lagrangian labeling has been developed. Its built-in frozen-in equation makes it optimal for studying current sheet formation. We use this scheme to study the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-02-22 Yao Zhou , Yi-Min Huang , Hong Qin , A. Bhattacharjee

The thickness of current sheets is extremely important, especially as it relates to the onset of fast magnetic reconnection. Onset determines how much magnetic free energy can build up in a field before it is explosively released. This has…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-27 James A. Klimchuk , James E. Leake , Lars K. S. Daldorff , Craig D. Johnston

We present a microscopic theory of the equilibrium polariton condensate state of a semiconductor quantum well in a planar optical cavity. The theory accounts for the adjustment of matter excitations to the presence of a coherent photon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 Fei Xue , Fengcheng Wu , Ming Xie , Jung-Jung Su , A. H. MacDonald

Results of a general study on the dynamics of cosmological scalar fields with arbitrary potentials are presented. Exact and approximate attractor solutions are found, with applications to quintessence, moduli stabilization and inflation.

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Rosati

Studying the interaction of spin-polarized currents with the magnetization configuration is of high interest due to the possible applications and the novel physics involved. High resolution magnetic imaging is one of the key techniques…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-18 L. Heyne , M. Kläui , L. Le Guyader , F. Nolting

Based on the concept of a nonequilibrium steady state, we present a novel method to experimentally determine energy landscapes acting on colloidal systems. By measuring the stationary probability distribution and the current in the system,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-06-20 V. Blickle , T. Speck , U. Seifert , C. Bechinger