Morphological Evolution of Higher Order Nonlinear Kinetic Alfv\'en Waves in Structured Galactic EnvironmentsKinetic Alfven waves (KAWs) are fundamental to energy transport and small-scale structure formation in the turbulent, magnetized interstellar medium (ISM). While first-order Korteweg--de Vries (KdV)…Manpreet Singh, Siming Liu, N. S. Saini·Apr 18, 2026SaveLearn
Physics-Informed Latent Space Dynamics Identification for Time-Dependent NLTE Atomic KineticsNon-local thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) calculations remain a major computational bottleneck in radiation--hydrodynamics, while most existing machine-learning surrogates treat NLTE as a static…Jeongwoo Nam, William Anderson, Youngsoo Choi et al.·Apr 17, 2026SaveLearn
Experimental evidence for coronal mass ejection suppression in strong stellar magnetic fieldsSolar coronal mass ejections (CME) are routinely observed, but as of yet there exist few convincing detections of stellar CMEs. A reason for this could be the stronger magnetic fields of these stars,…S. N. Chen, K. Burdonov, W. Yao et al.·Apr 17, 2026SaveLearn
The virial expansion of plasma properties: benchmarks for numerical resultsExpressions for the thermodynamic and transport properties of plasmas are derived from quantum statistics in the form of equilibrium correlation functions. These can be evaluated using analytical…Gerd Röpke·Apr 17, 2026SaveLearn
Ion-motion-driven enhancement of energy coupling and stability in relativistic laser-microchannel interactionFor sufficiently short relativistic-intensity laser pulses, the disparity in time scales for electron and ion motion causes ions to behave as a fixed, neutralizing background. As the pulse duration…K. Weichman, M. VanDusen-Gross, G. Bruhaug et al.·Apr 16, 2026SaveLearn
Laboratory evidence of electron pressure anisotropy driving plasmoid mediated magnetic reconnectionPlasmoid-driven magnetic reconnection in elongated current sheets is suspected to be an ubiquitous phenomenon in space and astrophysical plasmas, but the mechanisms driving its onset and dynamics are…A. Sladkov, T. Waltenspiel, H. Ahmed et al.·Apr 16, 2026SaveLearn
On nonlinear saturation of toroidal Alfv\'en eigenmode due to thermal plasma nonlinearitiesThe nonlinear saturation of toroidal Alfven eigenmode (TAE) due to thermal plasma nonlinearities is investigated using gyrokinetic particle-in-cell simulations and theoretical analysis. In the single…Ningfei Chen, Thomas Hayward-Schneider, Fulvio Zonca et al.·Apr 16, 2026SaveLearn
A tensor invariant approach to energy flux in magnetohydrodynamic turbulenceA scale-by-scale analysis of energy flux in the turbulent cascade can be performed using the spatially filtered magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations, while the gradient tensor invariants are widely…Conan M. Liptrott, Sandra C. Chapman, Bogdan Hnat et al.·Apr 15, 2026SaveLearn
A Data-Free, Physics-Informed Surrogate Solver for Drift Kinetic Equation: Enabling Fast Neoclassical Toroidal Viscosity Torque Modeling in TokamaksToroidal rotation is crucial for maintaining stable and high performance plasmas in tokamak fusion reactors. Among its driving mechanisms, the neoclassical toroidal viscosity (NTV) torque--induced by…Xingting Yan, Yuetao Meng, Nana Bao et al.·Apr 15, 2026SaveLearn
Charge transport and mode transition in dual-energy electron beam diodesThis Letter uncovers five distinct charge transport modes and their transitions in dual-energy electron beam diodes. We via first-principle particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations establish that the…Chubin Lin, Jiandong Chen, Huihui Wang et al.·Apr 15, 2026SaveLearn
Nonlinear Energy Transfer Analysis between Coherent Modes in Developing Plasma TurbulenceEnergy transfer among various spectral components of fluctuating physical parameters in plasma occurs due to the nonlinear interactions, but these effects are typically not captured by the…Sandip Das, Lavkesh Lachhvani, Kunal Singha et al.·Apr 14, 2026SaveLearn
FIREFLY: heat load and particle exhaust approximations for rapid evaluation of divertor designsThe divertor in a magnetic confinement fusion reactor is an essential component for power dissipation and particle removal. The FIREFLY package for rapid evaluation of divertor designs is presented…Heinke Frerichs, Dieter Boeyaert, Yuhe Feng et al.·Apr 13, 2026SaveLearn
3D Kinetic Simulations of Driven Reconnection in Merging Flux TubesWe present 2D and 3D Particle-in-Cell simulations of driven collisionless magnetic reconnection triggered by the compression and merger of two Lundquist-type force-free flux tubes in a strongly…Camille Granier, Fabio Bacchini, Daniel Groselj et al.·Apr 12, 2026SaveLearn
Ion shielding effects on the resonant boundary layer response to magnetic perturbationsFusion plasmas are highly sensitive to external magnetic perturbations which result in complex responses near a region known as the resonant layer. Past analytic descriptions of this phenomena used…Jace C. Waybright, Yeongsun Lee, Jong-Kyu Park·Apr 11, 2026SaveLearn
A Fully Electromagnetic Hybrid PIC-Fluid Model for Predictive Fusion Neutron Yield in Dense Plasma FocusWhile magnetic confinement fusion (MCF) and inertial confinement fusion (ICF) remain the primary routes toward controlled fusion, progress is still constrained by energy loss, plasma instabilities,…Yinjian Zhao, Zhe Liu, Qiang Sun et al.·Apr 10, 2026SaveLearn
Statistical equilibrium model for stellaratorsIn three dimensional toroidal domains without symmetry, the standard magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equilibrium model used for magnetic confinement fusion does not generally support smooth solutions.…Maximilian Ruth, Joshua W. Burby, Wrick Sengupta et al.·Apr 10, 2026SaveLearn
Anderson Localization of Ion-Temperature-Gradient Modes in Aperiodic StellaratorsThe geometric coefficients of the ion-temperature-gradient (ITG) eigenmode equation along a magnetic field line are aperiodic because the line samples the full three-dimensional geometry. Starting…Amitava Bhattacharjee·Apr 9, 2026SaveLearn
Complex plasma with Janus particles as a model active-matter systemActive matter classifies systems consisting of self-propelled units which convert the energy stored locally or extracted from their environment into directed motion. It has recently attracted…Volodymyr Nosenko·Apr 8, 2026SaveLearn
Monte Carlo Simulations of Suprathermal Enhancement in Advanced Nuclear Fusion FuelsSuprathermal fusion reactions, initiated by energetic particles slowing down and scattering in dense plasmas, can modify the burn dynamics at inertial confinement fusion (ICF) regimes. A 0D…Marcus Borscz, Thomas A. Mehlhorn, Patrick A. Burr et al.·Apr 8, 2026SaveLearn
Development of a Simple Stellarator using Tilted Circular Toroidal Field CoilsThis study investigates a simplified stellarator configuration employing circular coils, in which rotational transform is generated by tilting the toroidal field (TF) coils. A pair of axisymmetric…Ashit Kumar Nath, Yasuhiro Suzuki·Apr 8, 2026SaveLearn
Forecasting the first Edge Localized Mode (ELM) after LH-transition with a neural network trained on Doppler Backscattering data from DIII-DIn H-mode tokamak and stellarator plasmas, edge localized modes (ELMs) lead to the expulsion of heat and particles beyond the edge transport barrier. ELMs cause a loss of energy and have the…Nathan Qi Xuan Teo, Kshitish Barada, Valerian Hall-Chen et al.·Apr 7, 2026SaveLearn
Effects of Tungsten Radiative Cooling on Impurity, Heat and Momentum Transport in DIII-D PlasmasA first-of-its-kind experiment was conducted in the DIII-D tokamak under WEST similarity constraints on plasma shape and core parameters. This work presents a detailed transport study comparing a…A. Tema Biwole, T. Odstrčil, X. Litaudon et al.·Apr 7, 2026SaveLearn
gyaradax: Local Gyrokinetics JAX CodeGyrokinetic simulations are essential for understanding and controlling turbulence in fusion plasmas, yet they are oftentimes implemented in legacy codebases, in many cases CPU-bound. These are both…Gianluca Galletti, Eric Volkmann, Johannes Brandstetter·Apr 7, 2026SaveLearn
Occurrence of Flat-top Electron Velocity Distributions in Magnetotail Plasma JetsNon-Maxwellian electron velocity distributions (eVDFs) are ubiquitous in collisionless plasmas. For example, various types of non-Maxwellian eVDFs exist in magnetic reconnection jets in the Earth's…Louis Richard, Yuri V. Khotyaintsev, Cecilia Norgren·Apr 7, 2026SaveLearn
Modeling complex plasma instabilities in space plasmas - Three-component electron formalism of heat-flux instabilitiesDespite the fact that electrons observed in situ in space plasmas have three major components-the quasi-thermal core, suprathermal halo, and strahl-the analysis of instabilities triggered by kinetic,…Dustin L. Schröder, Marian Lazar, Horst Fichtner et al.·Apr 7, 2026SaveLearn