Integrated Observation of Isotope-Dependent Turbulence, Zonal Flow, and Turbulence-Driven TransportTo address the long-standing unresolved issue of "isotope effect" in plasma transport, this study investigates the hydrogen/deuterium (H/D) isotope dependence of a nonlinear turbulence…Shinsuke Ohshima, Hiroyuki Okada, Shinji Kobayashi et al.·Nov 3, 2025SaveLearn
Nonlinear effects in light-ion stopping powers within real-time time-dependent density functional theoryElectronic stopping power models describing fuel heating processes in inertial fusion energy concepts typically assume linear-response behavior through quadratic scaling with the projectile charge.…Alina Kononov, Thomas W. Hentschel, Stephanie B. Hansen et al.·Nov 2, 2025SaveLearn
Experimental investigation of plasma-electrode interactions on the ZaP-HD sheared-flow-stabilized Z-pinch deviceThe ZaP-HD sheared-flow-stabilized (SFS) Z-pinch device is a testbed for experimental investigation of plasma-electrode interactions. The graphite electrode is exposed to a high temperature, high…Amierul Aqil Khairi, Uri Shumlak·Nov 1, 2025SaveLearn
Synchronized Catastrophic Collapse and Extreme Intensity Amplification of Ultra-Intense Pulses in Near-Resonance Magnetized PlasmaUltra-high field intensities are essential for developing high-energy-density physics and compact plasma accelerators, but they are essentially constrained by the limitations of focusing distance and…Sintu Kumar, Pratibha Jaiswal, Km. Shivani Bhardwaj et al.·Oct 31, 2025SaveLearn
Observation of Ion-wave Satellites to Laser Harmonics in Intense Picosecond Laser-Solid InteractionDetailed spectra of harmonics produced from ultra-intense, sub-picosecond, high-contrast laser pulses incident on solid targets have shown the first observation of regular red- and blue-shifted…R. S. Marjoribanks, L. Zhao, F. W. Budnik et al.·Oct 31, 2025SaveLearn
Stellarator divertor design by optimizing coils for surfaces with sharp cornersIn stellarators, achieving effective divertor configurations is challenging due to the three-dimensional nature of the magnetic fields, which often leads to chaotic field lines and fuzzy…Todd Elder, Matt Landremann, Christoper B. Smiet et al.·Oct 31, 2025SaveLearn
Fast and accurate calculation of the bootstrap current and radial neoclassical transport in low collisionality stellarator plasmasIn this PhD thesis, a method for solving fast and accurately the monoenergetic drift-kinetic equation at low collisionality is presented. The algorithm is based on the analytical properties of the…Francisco Javier Escoto López·Oct 31, 2025SaveLearn
Plasma fibre using bright-core helicon plasmaThis paper reports an innovative concept of ``plasma fibre" using bright-core helicon plasma, inspired by its spatial and spectral similarities to the well-known optical fibre. Theoretical…Lei Chang, Zi-Chen Kan, Jing-Jing Ma et al.·Oct 31, 2025SaveLearn
Spectral Deconvolution without the Deconvolution: Extracting Temperature from X-ray Thomson Scattering Spectra without the Source-and-Instrument FunctionX-ray Thomson scattering (XRTS) probes the dynamic structure factor of the system, but the measured spectrum is broadened by the combined source-and-instrument function (SIF) of the setup. In order…Thomas Gawne, Alina Kononov, Andrew Baczewski et al.·Oct 30, 2025SaveLearn
High-order Mie resonance and transient field enhancement in laser-driven plasma nanoshellsWe demonstrate substantial field enhancement in plasma nanoshells through high-order Mie resonances using combined Mie theory and particle-in-cell simulations. Optimal shell geometries yield…Xiaohui Gao·Oct 30, 2025SaveLearn
Nonlocal Model for Electron Heat Flux and Self-generated Magnetic FieldCoupling of electron heat conduction and magnetic field takes significant effects in inertial confinement fusion (ICF). As the nonlocal models for electron heat conduction have been developed for…Xinyu Zhu, Wenqiang Yuan, Yusen Wang et al.·Oct 30, 2025SaveLearn
Design and Implementation of a Fast-Sweeping Langmuir Probe Diagnostic for DC Arc Jet EnvironmentsLangmuir probe diagnostics are a cornerstone of plasma characterization, providing critical measurements of electron temperature, electron density, and plasma potential. However, conventional swept…Sebastian V. Colom, Magnus A. Haw, Jocelino Rodrigues·Oct 30, 2025SaveLearn
Optimization of the Compact Stellarator with Simple Coils at finite-betaAn optimized stellarator at finite plasma beta is realized by single-stage optimization of simply modifying the coil currents of the Compact Stellarator with Simple Coils (CSSC)[Yu et al., J. Plasma…Haorong Qiu, Guodong Yu, Peiyou Jiang et al.·Oct 30, 2025SaveLearn
Global Non-Axisymmetric Hall Instabilities in a Rotating PlasmaNon-axisymmetric, flow-driven instabilities in the incompressible Hall-MHD model are studied in a differentially rotating cylindrical plasma. It is found that in the Hall-MHD regime, both whistler…Alexandre Sainterme, Fatima Ebrahimi·Oct 29, 2025SaveLearn
Magnetic Field Line Chaos, Cantori, and Turnstiles in Toroidal PlasmasThe mathematical concepts of chaos, cartori, and turnstiles underlie a number of areas of tokamak and stellarator physics. Nevertheless, these concepts have seldom explicitly appeared in publications…Allen H Boozer·Oct 29, 2025SaveLearn
Robust direct laser acceleration of electrons with flying-focus laser pulsesDirect laser acceleration (DLA) offers a compact source of high-charge, energetic electrons for generating secondary radiation or neutrons. While DLA in high-density plasma optimizes the energy…Talia Meir, Kale Weichman, Alexey Arefiev et al.·Oct 29, 2025SaveLearn
Effect of flow-aligned external magnetic fields on mushroom instabilityMushroom instability (MI) is a shear instability considered responsible for generating and amplifying magnetic fields in relativistic jets. While astrophysical jets are usually magnetized, how MI…Y. Guo, D. Wu, J. Zhang·Oct 28, 2025SaveLearn
Machine Learning approach to modeling of neutral particles transport in plasmaA propagator-based approach is investigated for Monte-Carlo (MC) modeling of neutral particles transport in fusion boundary plasmas. The propagator is essentially a Green function for the neutral…M. V. Umansky, G. J. Parker, R. D. Smirnov·Oct 27, 2025SaveLearn
Quantum Kinetic Modeling of KEEN waves in a Warm-Dense RegimeWe report a fully kinetic, quantum study of Kinetic Electrostatic Electron Nonlinear (KEEN) waves, showing that quantum diffraction systematically erodes the classical trapping mechanism, narrow…F. Alejandro Padilla-Gomez, Sining Gong, Michael S. Murillo et al.·Oct 27, 2025SaveLearn
Design of Backscatter Tailored Optical Fibers for distributed magnetic field sensing using Fiber Optic Pulsed PolarimetryFiber optic pulsed polarimetry is a LIDAR-like fiber sensing technique that uses a backscatter enhanced single mode backscatter-tailored optical fiber(BTOF) to measure the distributed B fields on all…Roger J Smith·Oct 27, 2025SaveLearn
High-Harmonic Optical Vortex Generation from a Plasma ApertureWhen a high-power, femtosecond, circularly polarized (CP) laser pulse is incident on a micrometer-scale aperture in a solid foil target, it drives surface plasma oscillation, generating high-order…Runze Li, Wenchao Yan, Longqing Yi·Oct 25, 2025SaveLearn
Constructing Field Aligned Coordinate Systems for Gyrokinetic Simulations of Tokamaks in X-point GeometriesStructures in tokamak plasmas are elongated along the direction of the magnetic field and short in the directions perpendicular to the magnetic field. Many tokamak simulation codes take advantage of…Akash Shukla, Ammar Hakim, James Juno et al.·Oct 24, 2025SaveLearn
Laboratory formation of scaled astrophysical outflowsAstrophysical systems exhibit a rich diversity of outflow morphologies, yet their mechanisms and existence conditions remain among the most persistent puzzles in the field. Here we present scaled…Shun-yi Yang, Guang-yue Hu, Chao Xiong et al.·Oct 24, 2025SaveLearn
Inhomogeneous mixing: From microscopic dynamics to mesoscopic staircasesInhomogeneous mixing and the consequent mesoscopic layered structure have been observed in many physical systems, including magnetically confined fusion plasmas. Especially, in plasmas, mixing can be…T. Long, M. J. Choi, P. H. Diamond·Oct 24, 2025SaveLearn
Cold atmospheric microplasma jet-water interactions: physicochemical analysis and growth effects in flowering plantsCold atmospheric pressure plasma jets (APPJs) are non-equilibrium plasmas, that are capable of producing reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (RONS) at near-room temperature. Their interaction with…Syon Bhattacharjee, Deepika Behmani, Sudeep Bhattacharjee·Oct 24, 2025SaveLearn