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Plasma Theory Seminar
Special Plasma Seminar
Plasma rotation: from mass separation applications to light manipulation
Date: Wednesday, February 24th
Time: 9:00 am
Place: Zoom Meeting
Speaker: Renaud Gueroult, Laplace, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse, France
Abstract: Rotation phenomena in plasmas are found everywhere, from plasma technologies to laboratory experiments and all the way to astrophysics, and can lead to peculiar effects. In this talk, I will first discuss how the mass differential confinement properties found in a rotating plasma could enable developing mass separation technologies [1] with high upside potential for societal applications including nuclear waste cleanup and rare earth recycling. I will then show how the problem of crossed-field rotation control is intimately tied to the question of what cross-field conductivity is in a rotating plasma, and how answering this basic question is also crucial to certain alternative magnetic confinement fusion concepts [2]. Finally, as a further illustration of the peculiar effects of rotation, I will briefly touch on the basic effect of rotation on wave polarization, and how this may be of importance for pulsars' physics [3] and light manipulation applications.

[1] Gueroult R., Rax J.-M., Zweben S. J. and Fisch, N. J., Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion, 2018, 60, 014018

[2] Rax J. M., Gueroult, R. and Fisch, N. J., Phys. Plasmas, 2017, 24, 032504

[3] Gueroult R., Shi Y., Rax J.-M. and Fisch N. J., Nat. Commun., 2019, 10, 3232



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