Xiaoming Zhong | Searcharxiv

arXiv2026

First Observation of Fishbone-Driven Zonal Flows with Fine Reversed Structure in Tokamak Plasmas

We present the first direct experimental observation of fishbone-driven zonal flows in the core of the EAST tokamak. In contrast to the global pattern predicted by previous models and simulations based on the energetic-particle-expulsion mechanism, the observed flows exhibit a fine-scale, radially reversed structure inside the q = 1 rational surface. The flow rises faster and saturates earlier than the fishbone within a single burst, indicating that a beat-driven nonlinear process dominates the early stage rather than the energetic-particle-expulsion mechanism. Global nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations quantitatively reproduce the observed radial profile and reveal that this structure arises from the cancellation of comparable but opposite contributions from thermal ions and electrons. This cancellation mechanism is not captured in previous theoretical frameworks. These findings establish that the fishbone can generate sheared flows with a distinct radial topology, offering a promising pathway for regulating turbulence and improving core confinement.

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arXiv2018

Multispectral Focal Stack Acquisition Using A Chromatic Aberration Enlarged Camera

Capturing more information, e.g. geometry and material, using optical cameras can greatly help the perception and understanding of complex scenes. This paper proposes a novel method to capture the spectral and light field information simultaneously. By using a delicately designed chromatic aberration enlarged camera, the spectral-varying slices at different depths of the scene can be easily captured. Afterwards, the multispectral focal stack, which is composed of a stack of multispectral slice images focusing on different depths, can be recovered from the spectral-varying slices by using a Local Linear Transformation (LLT) based algorithm. The experiments verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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