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Using the METIS fast-simulation code, researchers compared HTS-based tokamaks (similar to SPARC) against LTS-based tokamaks (similar to BEST) and found that the HTS device achieves equivalent fusion gain (Q≈5) while needing 50–60% less auxiliary heating power, because stronger magnetic fields (achievable with HTS at ~20 T vs ~13 T for LTS) improve plasma confinement so dramatically that less external energy input is needed to sustain the reaction. The HTS device also operates at a much lower fraction of the density limit (37% vs 87%), giving wider operational margins and reducing disruption risk. This matters because auxiliary heating power is a major term in the engineering energy balance — reducing it by half can push a device from net energy loss to net energy gain without any change in the fusion reaction itself.

██████████ 0.9 hts-magnets Peer-reviewed

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This paper proposes a theoretical framework called Functional Stability Theory that attempts to unify stability criteria across physical systems from particle physics to cosmology using a 'Universal Convexity-Uniqueness' criterion and renormalization group methods. It is tagged with a weak connection to turbulence modeling, which is relevant to fusion plasma confinement, but the link is highly speculative and the paper contains no experiments, no plasma physics, and no quantitative fusion-relevant results. Independent reviewers assess confidence as low; this should not be weighted as fusion signal.

██████████ 0.1 turbulence-modeling 🔗 3 cited Peer-reviewed

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This manifesto-style document proposes a conceptual framework for engineering materials by manipulating 'pre-structural' configurations before classical matter structure emerges, drawing an analogy to genetic engineering. There is no experimental data, no mathematical formalism, and no fusion-specific application; it was flagged as low confidence with no reproducible content. Its tag against the q-engineering roadblock reflects only a surface-level keyword match, not substantive relevance.

██████████ 0.0 q-engineering Peer-reviewed

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This preprint applies Wien's Law and angular momentum conservation to estimate rotational frequencies and surface temperatures of black hole singularities during stellar collapse. While it touches on plasma physics concepts at extreme densities, it has no direct connection to tokamak or inertial confinement fusion research. It is included here only because the remaining candidate papers are less relevant; it should not be interpreted as fusion signal.

██████████ 0.0 Peer-reviewed

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This theoretical preprint models the late-stage evaporation of primordial black holes as a balance between quantum spreading and gravitational contraction, predicting a suppressed high-energy gamma-ray spectrum. The work is purely astrophysical and has no connection to controlled nuclear fusion. It appears in this list only due to the absence of other fusion-relevant papers today.

██████████ 0.0 Peer-reviewed

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This self-published preprint proposes that time consists of three scalar fields and predicts a measurable excess decoherence rate in superconducting qubits and trapped ions. The work is speculative, unreviewed, contains no data, and the full document is a 6 kB Word file. It has no relevance to nuclear fusion and is included only to complete the required ten-paper list.

██████████ 0.0 Peer-reviewed

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A companion preprint to the above, also proposing three dynamic scalar time fields as a quantum gravity framework. Like its sequel, it proposes but does not execute experiments, contains no data, and is archived as a minimal Word document. No fusion relevance; included only to fulfill the ten-paper requirement.

██████████ 0.0 Peer-reviewed

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This is a data/code repository deposit accompanying a paper on using perturbation theory to design metamaterials that perform computation through their passive elastic response. The topic is materials science and mechanical computing, with no connection to plasma physics or fusion energy. Included only to complete the ten-paper list.

██████████ 0.0 Peer-reviewed

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Despite its title referencing black hole quasinormal modes, the actual content of this paper is an elementary AM-GM inequality optimization exercise on simplex geometry, with no black hole calculations and no fusion relevance. Assessed as low confidence by deep extraction; included here only to fulfill the ten-paper requirement.

██████████ 0.0 Peer-reviewed

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A self-published table deriving fundamental physical constants from non-standard network structures and sphere-packing constants, with no peer review, no shared derivations, and no fusion relevance. It is the last entry on this list solely because no tenth fusion-relevant paper existed in today's dataset.

██████████ 0.0 Peer-reviewed

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