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Engineered dissipation provides a powerful route to controlling and stabilizing quantum states in open systems. Superconducting circuits are particularly suited to this approach due to their tunable coupling to dissipative environments.…

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Design and modeling of a stellarator fusion reactor is a multidisciplinary effort that requires a tight integration between simulation of highly nonlinear multi-physics and representation of non-planar complex geometries. The critical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-11-23 Merle Backmeyer , Nicolo Riva , Mika Lyly , Alexandre Halbach , Valtteri Lahtinen

The charged particles storage capacity of microtraps (micro-Penning-Malmberg traps) with large length to radius aspect ratios and radii of the order of tens of microns was explored. Simulation studies of the motions of charged particles…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-07-10 Alireza Narimannezhad , Christopher J. Baker , Marc H. Weber , Jia Xu , Kelvin G. Lynn

Trapping of microparticles and aerosols is of great interest for physics and chemistry. We report microparticle trapping in multipole linear Paul trap geometries, operating under Standard Ambient Temperature and Pressure (SATP) conditions.…

Exciton-polaritons in semiconductor microcavities have advanced to become a model system for studying dynamical Bose-Einstein condensation, macroscopic coherence, many-body effects, nonclassical states of light and matter, and possibly…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-03-21 C. Schneider , K. Winkler , M. D. Fraser , M. Kamp , Y. Yamamoto , E. A. Ostrovskaya , S. Hoefling

The electron induced production of positrons is a multi-parameter problem which combines elementary physics processes with complex collection systems. The optimization of this technique for 120~MeV and 1000~MeV electron beam kinetic…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-01-10 Sami Habet , Andriy Ushakov , Eric Voutier

In the baseline design of the International Linear Collider (ILC) an undulator-based source is foreseen for the positron source in order to match the physics requirements. The recently chosen first energy stage with sqrt(s)=250 GeV requires…

We study the problem of designing electrode structures that allow pairs of ions to be brought together and separated rapidly in an array of linear Paul traps. We show that it is desirable for the electrode structure to produce a d.c.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 J. P. Home , A. M. Steane

Electro-optical modulators are essential components in optical communication systems. They encode an electrical waveform onto an optical carrier. However, their performance is often limited by inherent electro-optic processes and…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-28 Hong Deng , Yu Zhang , Xiangfeng Chen , Wim Bogaerts

An efficient electro-optical modulation has been demonstrated here by using an edge plasmon mode specific for the hybrid plasmonic waveguide. Our approach addresses a major obstacle of the integrated microwave photonics caused by the…

A new optimization framework to design steady equilibrium solutions of the Vlasov-Poisson system by means of external electric fields is presented. This optimization framework requires the minimization of an ensemble functional with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Alfio Borzì , Gennaro Infante , Giovanni Mascali

We revisit the matching conditions for self-guided laser pulse propagation in plasma and refine their formulation to maximize the energy of electrons produced via laser wakefield acceleration. Bayesian optimization, combined with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 P. Valenta , K. G. Miller , B. K. Russell , M. Lamač , M. Jech , G. M. Grittani , S. V. Bulanov

This paper describes a new and efficient method of defining an annular region of a curl-free magnetic field with specific physics and coil properties that can be used in stellarator design. Three statements define the importance: (1) Codes…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Allen H. Boozer

Relativistic spin-polarized electron beams are important for fundamental research and the industry, but their generation currently requires conventional accelerators or ultrastrong laser facilities, limiting their accessibility and broad…

We consider a problem relating to magnetic confinement devices known as stellarators. Plasma is confined by magnetic fields generated by current-carrying coils, and here we investigate how closely to the plasma they need to be positioned.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-18 Adam J. Golab , James C. Robinson , José L. Rodrigo

In this paper we study robust pulse design for electron shuttling in solid state devices. This is crucial for many practical applications of coherent quantum mechanical systems. Our objective is to design control pulses that can transport…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-31 Jun Zhang , Loren Greenman , Xiaotian Deng , K. Birgitta Whaley

We develop an effective field theory approach to inspect the electromagnetic interactions in an electrically neutral plasma, with an equal number of negative and positive charge carriers. We argue that the static equilibrium configurations…

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Stellarators, together with tokamaks, represent the two mainstream approaches to realizing fusion energy via toroidal magnetic confinement of highly ionized gases - plasmas - at extremely high temperatures. Improving our understanding of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-09 A. M. Wright , D. J Den Hartog , B. Geiger , C. Lu , A. Wolfmeister , B. J. Faber

The International Linear Collider is a planned electron-positron linear collider with its positron source producing positrons by aiming undulator radiation onto a rotating target. The resulting, highly divergent positron beam requires…

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The Polarized Electrons for Polarized Positrons experiment at the injector of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility has demonstrated for the first time the efficient transfer of polarization from electrons to positrons produced…