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The Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST) is the centre piece of the UK fusion research programme. In 2010, a MAST Upgrade programme was initiated with three primary objectives, to contribute to: 1) Testing reactor concepts (in particular…

Atom probe tomography (APT) is a 3D analysis technique that offers unique chemical accuracy and sensitivity with sub-nanometer spatial resolution. Recently, there is an increasing interest in the application of APT to complex oxides…

The coil in transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) determines the spatial shape of the electromagnetic field in the head, which structures are concurrently activated, and how focal stimulation is. Most of the readily available coils have…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Max Koehler , Stefan Goetz

The mechanical properties of metallic nanostructures are governed not only by topology but also by crystal symmetry and face-specific surface physics, which are typically absent from continuum topology optimization. We develop an…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Chun-Teh Chen , Denvid Lau

We present a general strategy for the inverse design of metasurfaces composed of elementary shapes. We use it to design a structure that collects and collimates light from nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond. Such metasurfaces constitute…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-11 Amelia R. Klein , Nader Engheta , Lee C. Bassett

In this paper, we present a framework for multiscale topology optimization of fluid-flow devices. The objective is to minimize dissipated power, subject to a desired contact-area. The proposed strategy is to design optimal microstructures…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Rahul Kumar Padhy , Krishnan Suresh , Aaditya Chandrasekhar

We investigate simultaneous multiphoton-multiatom (MPMA) processes in atomic gases subjected to laser fields. Our study reveals that the composite factor governing the transition rate of these processes can reach extraordinarily high…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Yongle Yu

Topology optimization (TO) in two dimensions often presents a trade-off between structural performance and manufacturability, with unpenalized (variable-thickness) methods yielding superior but complex designs, and penalized (SIMP) methods…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Gabriel Stankiewicz , Chaitanya Dev , Paul Steinmann

We recently proposed a new variational theory of "tensor-optimized antisymmetrized molecular dynamics" (TOAMD), which treats the strong interaction explicitly for finite nuclei [T. Myo et al., Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys. 2015, 073D02 (2015)].…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-09-05 Takayuki Myo , Hiroshi Toki , Kiyomi Ikeda , Hisashi Horiuchi , Tadahiro Suhara

The topological electronic structure plays a central role in the non-trivial physical properties in topological quantum materials. A minimal, hydrogen-atom-like topological electronic structure is desired for researches. In this work, we…

Shape-programmable soft materials that exhibit integrated multifunctional shape manipulations, including reprogrammable, untethered, fast, and reversible shape transformation and locking, are highly desirable for a plethora of applications,…

In order to transmute long-lived MAs and flatten power distribution in a PWR MOX fuel assembly, the authors have proposed to replace some high power fuel rods by MAs loaded fuel rods. The present work proves the high efficiency of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Shengli Chen , Cenxi Yuan

Magneto-optical traps (MOTs) are widely used for laser cooling of atoms. We have developed a high-flux compact cold-atom source based on a pyramid MOT with a unique adjustable aperture that is highly suitable for portable quantum technology…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Sean Ravenhall , Benjamin Yuen , Chris Foot

The pole shape optimization of an electromagnet typical of an MRI type application is investigated. We compare the use of different parameterizations of the pole shape and compare the convergence of the optimizations using a discrete…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-17 Paul J. Leonard , Andy M. Connor

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) enable more efficient molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with ab initio accuracy, which have been used in various domains of physical science. However, distribution shift between training and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-05-15 Taoyong Cui , Chenyu Tang , Dongzhan Zhou , Yuqiang Li , Xingao Gong , Wanli Ouyang , Mao Su , Shufei Zhang

In this work we investigate the theory for three different uni-directional population transfer schemes in trapped multilevel systems which can be utilized to cool molecular ions. The approach we use exploits the laser-induced coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-27 C. Lazarou , M. Keller , B. M. Garraway

The development of new manufacturing techniques such as 3D printing have enabled the creation of previously infeasible chemical reactor designs. Systematically optimizing the highly parameterized geometries involved in these new classes of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Tom Savage , Nausheen Basha , Jonathan McDonough , Omar K Matar , Ehecatl Antonio del Rio Chanona

Precise calculations of core properties in heavy-atom systems which are described by the operators heavily concentrated in atomic cores, like to hyperfine structure and P,T-parity nonconservation effects, usually require accounting for…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 A. V. Titov , N. S. Mosyagin , A. N. Petrov , T. A. Isaev

Toroidal Alfv\'{e}n eigenmodes (TAEs) and energetic particle modes (EPMs) can both be excited by energetic particles from auxiliary heating and fusion-born alpha particles in a tokamak. Using the hybrid kinetic-MHD model implemented in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Shiwei Xue , Ping Zhu , Haolong Li

Scaling up and effective cooling of ions in surface ion trap are central challenges in quantum computing and quantum simulation with trapped ions. In this theoretical study, we propose a versatile surface ion trap. In the manipulation zone…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Xinfang Zhang , Baoquan Ou , Ting Chen , Yi Xie , Wei Wu , Pingxing Chen