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This study investigates how two- and three-wave configurations govern particle escape and transport in tokamak edge plasmas. Using a Hamiltonian model derived from drift-wave turbulence, we analyze test particle dynamics through Poincar\'e…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-26 P. Haerter , E. D. Leonel , R. L. Viana

The application of resonant magnetic perturbations (RMPs) with a toroidal mode number of n=3 to connected double null plasmas in the MAST tokamak produces up to a factor of 9 increase in Edge Localized Mode (ELM) frequency and reduction in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-02-28 A. Kirk , Yueqiang Liu , I. T. Chapman , J. Harrison , E. Nardon , R. Scannell , A. J. Thornton , the MAST team

Maximizing fusion performance in tokamaks relies on high energy confinement, often achieved through distinct operating regimes. The automated labeling of these confinement states is crucial to enable large-scale analyses or for real-time…

The excitation of the spin degrees of freedom of an adsorbed atom by tunneling electrons is computed using a strong coupling theory. The excitation process is shown to be a sudden switch between the initial state determined by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-29 Nicolás Lorente Jean-Pierre Gauyacq

Accurate modeling of runaway electron generation and losses during tokamak disruptions is crucial for the development of reactor-scale tokamak devices. In this paper we present a reduced model for runaway electron losses due to flux surface…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 Oskar Vallhagen , Lise Hanebring , Tünde Fülöp , Mathias Hoppe , Istvan Pusztai

Entanglement entropy (EE) of a state is a measure of correlation or entanglement between two parts of a composite system and it may show appreciable change when the ground state (GS) undergoes a qualitative change in a quantum phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-04 Sambunath Das , Dayasindhu Dey , S. Ramasesha , Manoranjan Kumar

We present herein the results of a linear gyrokinetic analysis of electromagnetic microinstabilites in the conceptual high-$\beta$, reactor-scale, tight-aspect-ratio tokamak STEP (Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production,…

This work investigates toroidal momentum transport in type-I ELMy H-mode plasmas in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak, focusing on the formation of hollow rotation profiles under strong electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH). Applying the…

We studied the lock-in transition of charge-density waves of one-dimensional conductors. Though this phenomenon has been known for decades, there are still discrepancies between the theories and the experiments. We focused on the pioneering…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-15 Katsuhiko Inagaki , Keiji Nakatsugawa , Satoshi Tanda

Recent measurements of microwave and X-ray emission during edge localised mode (ELM) activity in tokamak plasmas provide a fresh perspective on ELM physics. It is evident that electron kinetics, which are not incorporated in standard…

The emergence and dynamics of filamentary structures associated with edge-localized modes (ELMs) inside tokamak plasmas during high-confinement mode is regularly studied using Electron Cyclotron Emission Imaging (ECEI) diagnostic systems.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 Cooper Jacobus , Minjun J. Choi , Ralph Kube

In this study, the first observation of high-frequency instabilities driven by runaway electrons has been reported in the EXL-50 spherical torus using a high-frequency magnetic pickup coil. The central frequency of these instabilities is…

Uncertainties and errors in magnetic equilibrium reconstructions are a wide-spread problem in interpreting experimental data measured in the tokamak edge. This study demonstrates errors in EFIT++ reconstructions performed on the COMPASS…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 K. Jirakova , O. Kovanda , J. Adamek , M. Komm , J. Seidl

This paper deals with resistive wall tearing mode (RWTM) disruptions. RWTMs are closely related to resistive wall modes (RWMs). The nonlinear behavior of these modes is strongly dependent on the resistive wall outside the plasma. A…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 H. R. Strauss , B. E. Chapman , B. C. Lyons

We use quantum information measures to study the local quantum phase transition that occurs for trapped spinless fermions in one-dimensional lattices. We focus on the case of a harmonic confinement. The transition occurs upon increasing the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-10 Yicheng Zhang , Lev Vidmar , Marcos Rigol

A theoretical model is presented describing the confinement-induced resonances observed in the recent loss experiment of Haller et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 153203 (2010)]. These resonances originate from possible molecule formation due to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Simon Sala , Philipp-Immanuel Schneider , Alejandro Saenz

The raise of the symmetry breaking mechanism by Landau[1] is a landmark in the studies of phase transitions. The Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition[2-3] and the fractional quantum Hall effect[4], however, are believed to be induced by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-08 Yangfan Hu

The physical sciences require models tailored to specific nuances of different dynamics. In this work, we study outcome predictions in nuclear fusion tokamaks, where a major challenge are \textit{disruptions}, or the loss of plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-02 Lucas Spangher , William Arnold , Alexander Spangher , Andrew Maris , Cristina Rea

The aim of the present study is to analyze the saturation regime of the energetic-ion-driven resistive interchange mode (EIC) in the LHD plasma. A set of non linear simulations are performed by the FAR3d code that uses a reduced MHD model…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-01-04 J. Varela , D. A. Spong , L. Garcia , S. Ohdachi , K. Y. Watanabe , R. Seki , Y. Ghai

LHD inward-shifted configurations are unstable to resistive MHD pressure-gradient-driven modes. These modes drive sawtooth like events during LHD operation. In this work, we simulate sawtooth like activity and internal disruptions in order…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-07 J. Varela , L. Garcia , S. Ohdachi , K. Y. Watanabe , R. Sanchez
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