等离子体物理

Finding feasible coils for stellarator fusion devices is a critical challenge of realizing this concept for future power plants. Years of research work can be put into the design of even a single reactor-scale stellarator design. To rapidly…

Cross-field electron transport in Hall thrusters is widely attributed to high-frequency $E\times B$ instabilities, yet its net spatial pathway remains poorly resolved. Here we perform instability-resolving three-dimensional particle-in-cell…

Using fully kinetic Particle In Cell simulations, we investigate the stability and performance of autoresonant plasma beat wave excitation in plasmas with tailored density profiles. We show that a prescribed spatial variation of the…

Strong gradient regions in tokamaks such as the pedestal or internal transport barriers are regions of reduced turbulence where neoclassical transport can play a dominant role. In pedestals, gradient lengths comparable to the ion poloidal…

High-quality proton beams generated by laser-plasma interactions are of significant interest for applications ranging from tumor therapy to fast ignition in inertial confinement fusion. However, simultaneously achieving high energy coupling…

We present nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of high-$\beta$ Wendelstein 7-X plasmas using the stellarator extension of the M3D-$C^1$ code, building on the recent work that shows benign saturation of ideal ballooning modes…

In this work, we present a general form for the electron-ion diffractive potential derived from the quantum pair density matrix and fit to the improved Kelbg potential for atomic numbers up to $Z = 54$. We apply classical molecular dynamics…

We propose and detail a multi-step analytical procedure, based on an improved fully relativistic plane model for Laser Wake Field Acceleration, to tailor the initial density of a cold diluted plasma to the laser pulse profile, so as to…

We confirm the existence of a new bulk medium quasiparticle with transverse orbital angular momentum (tOAM) and elucidate its physical origin. The tOAM structure is driven by torques induced by the ponderomotive force of the light in the…

The compact laboratory stand ``Solar Wind'' (Inst. Appl. Phys. of Russ. Acad. Sci.) forms an arch structure of the coronal loop type, in which the plasma pressure varies from zero to values of the order of and above the magnetic pressure.…

We present a nonlinear Bayesian tomographic framework for Doppler spectral imaging that enables simultaneous reconstruction of emissivity, ion temperature, and flow velocity from line-integrated spectra. The method employs nonlinear…

We propose a novel tomographic method, nonlinear Gaussian process tomography (nonlinear GPT), that uses the Laplace approximation to impose constraints on non-negative physical quantities, such as the emissivity in plasma optical…

The polarization of gamma rays produced in strong-field quantum electrodynamics (SFQED) is a fundamental and long-standing prediction, the verification of which has remained elusive, limiting both foundational tests and applications. Here,…

The RAPTOR code is used to model how the time required for controlled termination of Ohmic plasmas scales from present tokamaks like TCV and JET, to reactor-grade tokamaks like ITER and DEMO. We show that ramping the plasma current $I_p$…

We present a cold-fluid analysis of the purely transverse Weibel (current-filamentation) instability across four regimes: non-relativistic (NR) single-species, NR multi-species, relativistic single-species, and relativistic multi-species…

In this brief review, the historical aspects of the generalization of the Grad--Shafranov equation to the case of anisotropic plasma are discussed.

Similarity experiments were performed on the DIII-D and TCV tokamaks to explore the scaling of energy confinement in negative triangularity plasmas using non-dimensional variables. Near up-down symmetric plasmas with large top-bottom…

Due to their simultaneous optimization for radial and parallel neoclassical transport, quasi-isodynamic fields have been the main choice of stellarator magnetic configuration for most fusion reactor candidates in recent years. However,…

We present a method for optimizing stellarator configurations that combine omnigenity and piecewise omnigenity (pwO). Within the \texttt{OOPS} optimization framework [Liu \textit{et al.}, arXiv:2502.09350 (2025)], we introduce a mapping…

Radiated power information is crucial to diagnose and optimize the performance of fusion plasmas. Traditionally, at the TCV tokamak, radiated power analysis has only ever been possible following plasma discharge termination. However,…