Major results from the stellarator Wendelstein 7-AS

M Hirsch, J Baldzuhn, C Beidler, R Brakel… - Plasma Physics and …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Wendelstein 7-AS was the first modular stellarator device to test some basic elements of
stellarator optimization: a reduced Shafranov shift and improved stability properties resulted …

Tonks–Girardeau gas of ultracold atoms in an optical lattice

B Paredes, A Widera, V Murg, O Mandel, S Fölling… - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
Strongly correlated quantum systems are among the most intriguing and fundamental
systems in physics. One such example is the Tonks–Girardeau gas,, proposed about 40 …

Characterization of energy confinement in net-current free plasmas using the extended International Stellarator Database

H Yamada, JH Harris, A Dinklage, E Ascasibar… - Nuclear …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
International collaboration on development of a stellarator confinement database has
progressed. More than 3000 data points from nine major stellarator experiments have been …

Collisionless damping of zonal flows in helical systems

H Sugama, TH Watanabe - Physics of Plasmas, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
Collisionless time evolution of zonal flows in helical systems is investigated. An analytical
expression describing the collisionless response of the zonal-flow potential to the initial …

Piecewise omnigenous stellarators

JL Velasco, I Calvo, FJ Escoto, E Sánchez… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
In omnigenous magnetic fields, charged particles are perfectly confined in the absence of
collisions and turbulence. For this reason, the magnetic configuration is optimized to be …

Reduction of turbulent transport with zonal flows enhanced in helical systems

TH Watanabe, H Sugama, S Ferrando-Margalet - Physical review letters, 2008 - APS
Gyrokinetic Vlasov simulations of the ion temperature gradient turbulence are performed in
order to investigate effects of helical magnetic configurations on turbulent transport and …

Experimental demonstration of improved neoclassical transport with quasihelical symmetry

JM Canik, DT Anderson, FSB Anderson, KM Likin… - Physical review …, 2007 - APS
Differences in the electron particle and thermal transport are reported between plasmas
produced in a quasihelically symmetric (QHS) magnetic field and a configuration with the …

Spectrum response and analysis of 77 GHz band collective Thomson scattering diagnostic for bulk and fast ions in LHD plasmas

M Nishiura, S Kubo, K Tanaka, R Seki… - Nuclear …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
A collective Thomson scattering (CTS) diagnostic was developed and used to measure the
bulk and fast ions originating from 180 keV neutral beams in the Large Helical Device …

Dynamics of zonal flows in helical systems

H Sugama, TH Watanabe - Physical review letters, 2005 - APS
A theory for describing collisionless long-time behavior of zonal flows in helical systems is
presented and its validity is verified by gyrokinetic-Vlasov simulation. It is shown that, under …

A geometry interface for gyrokinetic microturbulence investigations in toroidal configurations

P Xanthopoulos, WA Cooper, F Jenko, Y Turkin… - Physics of …, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
The GENE/GIST code package is developed for the investigation of plasma microturbulence,
suitable for both stellarator and tokamak configurations. The geometry module is able to …