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Forty-five years ago a coordinate system was shown to exist that gave simple but exact expressions whenever and wherever a toroidal plasma equilibrium $\vec{\nabla}p=\vec{j}\times\vec{B}$ exists. These coordinates, now called Boozer…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Allen H Boozer

The effectiveness of multiple electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) harmonics has been thoroughly investigated in context of high current drive efficiency, generally observed in fully non-inductive operation of the low aspect ratio EXL-50…

The precise description of quantum nuclear fluctuations in atomistic modelling is possible by employing path integral techniques, which involve a considerable computational overhead due to the need of simulating multiple replicas of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-03-23 Venkat Kapil , Jörg Behler , Michele Ceriotti

In this work, an implicit scheme for particle-in-cell/Fourier electromagnetic simulations is developed and applied to studies of Alfv\'en waves in one dimension and three-dimensional tokamak plasmas. An analytical treatment is introduced to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Z. X. Lu , G. Meng , M. Hoelzl , Ph. Lauber

We present various techniques that make orbit-following Monte Carlo simulations faster and more reliable when assessing collisionless fast particle losses due to magnetic field perturbations. These techniques are based on identifying…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Konsta Särkimäki

We present a novel method for estimating the circulations and positions of point vortices using trajectory data of passive particles in the presence of Gaussian noise. The method comprises two algorithms: the first one calculates the vortex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-05 Gil Marques , Marco Martins Afonso , Sílvio Gama

Modern Tokamaks have evolved from the initial axisymmetric circular plasma shape to an elongated axisymmetric plasma shape that improves the energy confinement time and the triple product, which is a generally used figure of merit for the…

The neoclassical transport theory is applied to calculate electron cyclotron current drive (ECCD) efficiency in an axisymmetric tokamak in the low-collisionality regime. The tokamak ordering is used to obtain a system of equations that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Cesar Gutierrez-Tapia , Monica Beltran-Plata

We present an efficient quantum algorithm for beyond-Born-Oppenheimer molecular energy computations. Our approach combines the quantum full configuration interaction method with the nuclear orbital plus molecular orbital (NOMO) method. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-24 Libor Veis , Jakub Višňák , Hiroaki Nishizawa , Hiromi Nakai , Jiří Pittner

Tokamak plasmas are confined by a magnetic field that limits the particle and heat transport perpendicular to the field. Parallel to the field the ionised particles can move freely, so to obtain confinement the field lines are "closed" (ie.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-11-17 Jarrod Leddy , Ben Dudson , Michele Romanelli , Brendan Shanahan , Nick Walkden

The tokamak is a world-leading concept for producing sustainable energy via magnetically-confined nuclear fusion. Identifying where to position the magnets within a tokamak, specifically the poloidal field (PF) coils, is a design problem…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Timothy Nunn , Kamran Pentland , Vignesh Gopakumar , James Buchanan

An efficient numerical scheme for solving transport equations for tokamak plasmas within an integrated modelling framework is presented. The plasma transport equations are formulated as diffusion-advection equations in two coordinates (a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-06-17 Andrei Ludvig-Osipov , Dmytro Yadykin , Pär Strand

For a separable Hamiltonian, there are two fundamental, time-symmetric, second-order velocity-Verlet (VV) and position-Verlet (PV) symplectic integrators. Similarly, there are two VV and PV version of exact energy conserving algorithms for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Siu A. Chin

The chaotic transport of charged particles in a turbulent electrostatic potential sets the conditions of a severe limitation to the plasma confinement in devices such as tokamaks. In this chapter, we consider the motion of impurities driven…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-21 Cristel Chandre , Guido Ciraolo , Michel Vittot

Reliable position and shape control in tokamak plasmas requires accurate real-time regulation of several strongly coupled shape parameters. The control vectors that disentangle these couplings, referred to as \textit{virtual circuits}…

Many quantum algorithms rely on the measurement of complex quantum amplitudes. Standard approaches to obtain the phase information, such as the Hadamard test, give rise to large overheads due to the need for global controlled-unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Yilun Yang , Arthur Christianen , Mari Carmen Bañuls , Dominik S. Wild , J. Ignacio Cirac

We apply the version of the Efros method utilizing oscillator expansion of wave functions to the Coulomb scattering problem using our recent developments of the HORSE formalism. The approach yields accurate phase shifts and cross sections…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-09 Ustin M. Yanikov , Vasily A. Kulikov , Andrey M. Shirokov

This paper deals with the numerical reconstruction of the plasma current density in a Tokamak and of its equilibrium. The problem consists in the identification of a non-linear source in the 2D Grad-Shafranov equation, which governs the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-26 Jacques Blum , Cédric Boulbe , Blaise Faugeras

The effects of resonant magnetic perturbations on the turbulent transport of fast ions in tokamak devices are investigated using a theoretical transport model of test-particle type. The direct numerical simulation method is used to compute,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 D. I. Palade

A technique, volumetric power optimization, is presented for enhancing the power output of magnetic confinement fusion devices. Applied to a tokamak, this approach involves shifting the burning plasma region to a larger plasma volume while…