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In this paper, the design of the the plasma equilibrium and superconducting coils for the Electrons and Positrons in an Optimized Stellarator EPOS experiment is presented. With newly developed stellarator optimization tools, including…

This paper deals with the design of the stellarator field with the simple coil set. In order to realize the stellarator field by the simple coil set, the tilted toroidal field coil uses for creating the rotational transform. Sixteen tilted…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-12-01 Yasuhiro Suzuki , Jie Huang , Nengchao Wang , Yonghua Ding

In this article we present a method to design a coil producing an arbitrarily shaped magnetic field by restricting the path of the coil's wires to a regular grid. The solution is then found by a simple least squares minimum. We discuss…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-15 M. Rawlik , C. Crawford , A. Eggenberger , K. Kirch , J. Krempel , F. M. Piegsa , G. Quéméner

We present an active-set method for minimizing an objective that is the sum of a convex quadratic and $\ell_1$ regularization term. Unlike two-phase methods that combine a first-order active set identification step and a subspace phase…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-08 Stefan Solntsev , Jorge Nocedal , Richard Byrd

A method is given to rapidly compute quasisymmetric stellarator magnetic fields for plasma confinement, without the need to call a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium code inside an optimization iteration. The method is based…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-12-04 Matt Landreman , Wrick Sengupta

The slow dynamics for a colloidal suspension of particles interacting with a hard-core repulsion complemented by a short-ranged attraction is discussed within the frame of mode-coupling theory for ideal glass transitions for parameter…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthias Sperl

'Coil design' is an inverse problem in which arrangements of wire are designed to generate a prescribed magnetic field when energized with electric current. The design of gradient and shim coils for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-02-19 Michael Poole , Pierre Weiss , Hector Sanchez Lopez , Michael Ng , Stuart Crozier

The Optimal Power Flow (OPF) problem is central to the reliable and efficient operation of power systems, yet its non-convex nature poses significant challenges for finding globally optimal solutions. While convex relaxation techniques such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Mohammadreza Iranpour , Mohammad Rasoul Narimani

This work describes a powerful, yet simple, procedure how to acquire a current approaching the lower bound of quality factor Q. This optimal current can be determined for an arbitrarily shaped electrically small radiator made of a perfect…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-01 Miloslav Capek , Lukas Jelinek

For designing high-field electromagnets, the Lorentz force on coils must be computed to ensure a support structure is feasible, and the inductance should be computed to evaluate the stored energy. Also, the magnetic field and its variation…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-10-19 Matt Landreman , Siena Hurwitz , Thomas M Antonsen

In this work, we consider bilevel optimization when the lower-level problem is strongly convex. Recent works show that with a Hessian-vector product (HVP) oracle, one can provably find an $\epsilon$-stationary point within…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Lesi Chen , Yaohua Ma , Jingzhao Zhang

Stellarators are magnetic confinement devices under active development to deliver steady-state carbon-free fusion energy. Their design involves a high-dimensional, constrained optimization problem that requires expensive physics simulations…

The modeling of electric machines and power transformers typically involves systems of nonlinear magnetostatics or -quasistatics, and their efficient and accurate simulation is required for the reliable design, control, and optimization of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-23 Herbert Egger , Felix Engertsberger , Bogdan Radu

In this paper, we concentrate on a particular category of quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP): nonconvex QCQP with one equality constraint. This type of QCQP problem optimizes a quadratic objective under a fixed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Licheng Zhao , Rui Zhou , Wenqiang Pu

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

The fragile nature of quantum information limits our ability to construct large quantities of quantum bits suitable for quantum computing. An important goal, therefore, is to minimize the amount of resources required to implement quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-11 Adam Paetznick , Austin G. Fowler

A single-field-period quasi-isodynamic stellarator configuration is presented. This configuration, which resembles a twisted strip, is obtained by the method of direct construction, that is, it is found via an expansion in the distance from…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 R. Jorge , G. G. Plunk , M. Drevlak , M. Landreman , J. -F. Lobsien , K. Camacho Mata , P. Helander

High-order methods for convex and nonconvex optimization, particularly $p$th-order Adaptive Regularization Methods (AR$p$), have attracted significant research interest by naturally incorporating high-order Taylor models into adaptive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Wenqi Zhu , Coralia Cartis

Conservation principles like conservation of charge or energy provide a natural way to couple and constrain different physical variables. In this letter, we propose a dynamical system model that exploits these constraints for solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-24 Oindrila Chatterjee , Shantanu Chakrabartty

Optimizing quantum circuits is challenging due to the very large search space of functionally equivalent circuits and the necessity of applying transformations that temporarily decrease performance to achieve a final performance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-20 Zikun Li , Jinjun Peng , Yixuan Mei , Sina Lin , Yi Wu , Oded Padon , Zhihao Jia
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