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Non-thermal advanced fuel fusion trades the requirement of a large amount of recirculating tritium in the system for that of large recirculating power. Phase space engineering technologies utilizing externally injected electromagnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Hong Qin

Phase space engineering by RF waves plays important roles in both thermal D-T fusion and non-thermal advanced fuel fusion. But not all phase space manipulation is allowed, certain fundamental limits exist. In addition to Liouville's…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-12 Hong Qin , Elijah J. Kolmes , Michael Updike , Nicholas Bohlsen , Nathaniel J. Fisch

The stretch energy is a fully nonlinear energy functional that has been applied to the numerical computation of area-preserving mappings. However, this approach lacks theoretical support and the analysis is complicated due to the full…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Mei-Heng Yueh

Rearranging the six-dimensional phase space of particles in plasma can release energy. The rearrangement may happen through the application of electric and magnetic fields, subject to various constraints. The maximum energy that can be…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 E. J. Kolmes , P. Helander , N. J. Fisch

The energy spectrum of two short-range interacting particles in a harmonic potential trap has previously been related to free-space scattering phase shifts. But the existing formula for this purpose is exact only in the limit of an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Xilin Zhang

In this paper we will explore fundamental constraints on the evolution of certain symplectic subvolumes possessed by any Hamiltonian phase space. This research has direct application to optimal control and control of conservative mechanical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-09-11 Jared M. Maruskin , Daniel J. Scheeres , Anthony M. Bloch

Distributing points on a (possibly high-dimensional) sphere with minimal energy is a long-standing problem in and outside the field of mathematics. This paper considers a novel energy function that arises naturally from statistics and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-21 Weibo Fu , Guanyang Wang , Jun Yan

The maximum particle kinetic energy that can be extracted from an initial six-dimensional phase space distribution motivates the concept of free or available energy. The free energy depends on the allowed operations that can be performed. A…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-12-29 E. J. Kolmes , N. J. Fisch

This paper deals with the problem of generalising Gromov's non squeezing theorem to an infinite dimensional Hilbert phase space setting. By following the lines of the proof by Hofer and Zehnder of finite dimensional non-squeezing, we…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-30 Lorenzo Rigolli

The solution to an optimal power flow (OPF) problem provides a minimum cost operating point for an electric power system. The performance of OPF solution techniques strongly depends on the problem's feasible space. This paper presents an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-03 Daniel K. Molzahn

We consider the energy minimization problem for undirected graphical models, also known as MAP-inference problem for Markov random fields which is NP-hard in general. We propose a novel polynomial time algorithm to obtain a part of its…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-08-19 Paul Swoboda , Alexander Shekhovtsov , Jörg Hendrik Kappes , Christoph Schnörr , Bogdan Savchynskyy

Using Semaev's summation polynomials, we derive a new equation for the $\mathbb{F}_q$-rational points of the trace zero variety of an elliptic curve defined over $\mathbb{F}_q$. Using this equation, we produce an optimal-size representation…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-03-04 Elisa Gorla , Maike Massierer

In this paper we present and analyze a constraint energy minimizing generalized multiscale finite element method for convection diffusion equation. To define the multiscale basis functions, we first build an auxiliary multiscale space by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-31 Lina Zhao , Eric Chung

The difficulty in exploring potential energy surfaces, which are nonconvex, stems from the presence of many local minima, typically separated by high barriers and often disconnected in configurational space. We obtain the global minimum on…

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Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is a fundamental operation in machine learning, scientific computing, and graph algorithms. In this paper, we investigate the space, time, and energy efficiency of SpMV using various compressed…

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A double-well energy expressed as a minimum of two quadratic functions, called phase energies, is studied with taking into account the minimization of the corresponding integral functional. Such integral, as being not sequentially weakly…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-14 Zdzisław Naniewicz , Piotr Puchała

We prove that the non-squeezing theorem of Gromov holds for symplectomorphisms on an infinite-dimensional symplectic Hilbert space, under the assumption that the image of the ball is convex. The proof is based on the construction by duality…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-13 Alberto Abbondandolo , Pietro Majer

The recently introduced nested sampling algorithm allows the direct and efficient calculation of the partition function of atomistic systems. We demonstrate its applicability to condensed phase systems with periodic boundary conditions by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-01-09 Lívia B. Pártay , Albert P. Bartók , Gábor Csányi

Loops undergoing thermal fluctuations are prevalent in nature. Ring-like or cross-linked polymers, cyclic macromolecules, and protein-mediated DNA loops all belong to this category. Stability of these molecules are generally described in…

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The intrinsic excitation energy of fission fragments is dynamically evaluated in terms of the time dependent pairing equations. These equations are corroborated with two conditions. One of them fixes the number of particles and the another…

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