March 11, 2024

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Inverting Fusion Plasmas Improves Performance

Plasmas with negative triangularity show reduced gradients that develop into instabilities, including under conditions relevant to fusion power plants.

January 29, 2024

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Antihydrogen Falls Downward!

Settling a long-standing question, scientists have proven that antihydrogen falls downward in a first-ever direct experiment.

January 24, 2024

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Islands That Move Together, Disrupt Together

Small rotating magnetic islands in tokamaks flowing at the same speed can couple together to cause disruptive islands that reduce plasma confinement.

January 11, 2024

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Researchers Visualize Energetic Ion Flow in Fusion Devices

For the first time, scientists successfully track energetic ion flow through space and energy driven by electromagnetic waves in fusion plasmas.

January 2, 2024

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Opening the Magnetic Bottle of a Tokamak Causes Particles to Rush Inward

Perturbing the edge magnetic field of a tokamak produces a counterintuitive response: particles entering the confined region rather than escaping it.

December 13, 2023

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Bridging Theory and Fusion Experiments through Physics-Informed Deep Learning

Neural networks guided by physics are creating new ways to observe the complexities of plasmas.

December 4, 2023

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Collisions Change How Fast Ions Surf on Plasma Waves in Fusion Experiments and Beyond

Computation and simulations show that different types of collisions compete to determine the way energy is transferred between particles and plasma waves.

July 5, 2023

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Quantum Error Correction Moves Beyond Breakeven

For the first time, the error correction process significantly enhances the lifetime of quantum information.

June 21, 2023

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Fusion Simulations Reveal the Multi-Scale Nature of Tokamak Turbulence

Scientists use supercomputer simulations to understand the complex interplay between large-scale ion and small-scale electron plasma motion in determining fusion performance

May 12, 2023

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Small Fusion Experiment Hits Temperatures Hotter than the Sun’s Core

National laboratory researchers partner with a private company to achieve 100-million-degree temperatures inside a high magnetic field spherical tokamak.