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Publication List
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Below is a running list of papers which utilize or build on the software.

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Papers extending DESC functionality
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#. D.W. Dudt and E. Kolemen. (2020).
   *DESC: A stellarator equilibrium solver*.
   [`Physics of Plasmas <https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0020743>`__]
   [`pdf <https://github.com/PlasmaControl/DESC/blob/master/publications/dudt2020/dudt2020desc.pdf>`__]

#. D. Panici, R. Conlin, D.W. Dudt, K.E. Unalmis, and E. Kolemen. (2023).
   *The DESC Stellarator Code Suite Part I: Quick and accurate equilibria computations*.
   [`JPP <https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022377823000272>`__]
   [`pdf <https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.17173>`__]

#. R. Conlin, D.W. Dudt, D. Panici, and E. Kolemen. (2023).
   *The DESC Stellarator Code Suite Part II: Perturbation and continuation methods*.
   [`JPP <https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022377823000399>`__]
   [`pdf <https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.15927>`__]

#. D.W. Dudt, R. Conlin, D. Panici, and E. Kolemen. (2023).
   *The DESC Stellarator Code Suite Part III: Quasi-symmetry optimization*.
   [`JPP <https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022377823000235>`__]
   [`pdf <https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.00078>`__]

#. D.W. Dudt, A.G. Goodman, R. Conlin, D. Panici, and E. Kolemen. (2024).
   *Magnetic Fields with General Omnigenity*.
   [`JPP <https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022377824000151>`__]
   [`pdf <https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.08026>`__]

#. P. Kim et al. (2024).
   *Optimization of Nonlinear Turbulence in Stellarators*.
   [`JPP <https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022377824000369>`__]
   [`pdf <https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.18842>`__]

#. R. Gaur, R. Conlin, D. Dickinson, J.F. Parisi, D. Panici,
   D.W. Dudt, P. Kim, K.E. Unalmis, W.D. Dorland, and E. Kolemen. (2024).
   *Omnigenous stellarators with improved ideal and kinetic ballooning stability*.
   [`Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion <https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/ae1e9e>`__]
   [`pdf <https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.04576>`__]

#. R. Conlin, P. Kim, D.W. Dudt, D. Panici, and E. Kolemen. (2024).
   *Stellarator optimization with constraints*.
   [`JPP <https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022377824000655>`__]
   [`pdf <https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11033>`__]

#. K.E. Unalmis et al. (2024).
   *Spectrally accurate, reverse-mode differentiable bounce-averaging algorithm and
   its applications*.
   [`pdf <https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01724>`__]

#. R. Conlin, J. Schilling, D.W. Dudt, D. Panici, R. Jorge, and E. Kolemen. (2024).
   *High Order Free Boundary MHD Equilibria in DESC*.
   [`pdf <https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05680>`__]

#. R. Gaur, D. Panici, T.M. Elder, M. Landreman, K.E. Unalmis, Y. Elmacioglu,
   D.W. Dudt, R. Conlin, and E. Kolemen. (2025).
   *Omnigenous umbilic stellarators*.
   [`pdf <https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04211>`__]

#. D. Panici, E. Rodriguez, R. Conlin, D.W. Dudt, and E. Kolemen. (2025).
   *Extending near-axis equilibria in DESC*.
   [`pdf <https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05170>`__]

#. D. Panici et al. (2025).
   *Surface Current Optimization and Coil-Cutting Algorithms for Stage-Two
   Stellarator Optimization*.
   [`pdf <https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09321>`__]

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Papers applying DESC
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#. M. Landreman. (2022).
   *Mapping the space of quasisymmetric stellarators using optimized near-axis expansion*.
   [`JPP <https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022377822001258>`__]
   [`pdf <https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.11849>`__]

#. R. Nies, E.J. Paul, D. Panici, S.R. Hudson, and A. Bhattacharjee. (2024).
   *Exploration of the parameter space of quasisymmetric stellarator vacuum fields
   through adjoint optimization*.
   [`JPP <https://doi.org/10.1017/S002237782400093X>`__]
   [`pdf <https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02240>`__]

#. C.P.S. Swanson, D.A. Gates, S.T.A. Kumar, M.F. Martin, T.G. Kruger, D.W. Dudt,
   P.J. Bonofiglo, and the Thea Energy team. (2025).
   *The scoping, design, and plasma physics optimization of the Eos neutron source stellarator*.
   [`Nuclear Fusion <https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/ada56a>`__]

#. P.J. Bonofiglo, D.W. Dudt, and C.P.S. Swanson. (2025).
   *Fast ion confinement in quasi-axisymmetric stellarator equilibria*.
   [`Nuclear Fusion <https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/ada56d>`__]

#. D.A. Gates et al. (2025).
   *Stellarator fusion systems enabled by arrays of planar coils*.
   [`Nuclear Fusion <https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/ada56c>`__]

#. C.C. Hegna et al. (2025).
   *The Infinity Two fusion pilot plant baseline plasma physics design*.
   [`JPP <https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022377825000364>`__]

#. S.R. Hudson, D. Panici, C. Zhu, G.S. Woodbury Saudeau, A. Baillod,
   M. Cianciosa, and A.S. Ware. (2025).
   *Verification of the Shafranov shift in free-boundary VMEC, DESC, and
   SPEC calculations with elliptical geometry*.
   [`Physics of Plasmas <https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0253843>`__]

#. L. Fu, E. Rodriguez, R. Conlin, and A. Bhattacharjee. (2025).
   *Numerical asymptotics of near-axis expansions of quasisymmetric
   magnetohydrostatic equilibria with anisotropic pressure*.
   [`pdf <https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20475>`__]

#. S.A. Cadena et al. (2025).
   *ConStellaration: A dataset of QI-like stellarator plasma boundaries
   and optimization benchmarks*.
   [`pdf <https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19583>`__]

#. M. Landreman, J.Y. Choi, C. Alves, P. Balaprakash, M. Churchill,
   R. Conlin, and G. Roberg-Clark. (2025).
   *How does ion temperature gradient turbulence depend on magnetic geometry?
   Insights from data and machine learning*.
   [`JPP <https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022377825100536>`__]
   [`pdf <https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.11657>`__]

#. R. Wu, T.G. Kruger, and C.P.S. Swanson. (2025).
   *Planar coil optimization for the Eos stellarator using sparse regression*.
   [`Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion <https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/adb5b7>`__]
   [`pdf <https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.07702>`__]

#. T. Jeong, J. Jang, D. Panici, R. Gaur, H. Liu, R. Conlin, C. Zhu,
   E. Kolemen, and J.-K. Park. (2025).
   *Robustness of quasi-symmetry along parametric boundary variation*.
   [`Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion <https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/adf6e1>`__]

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