Recent highlights:
A Diophantine approach to evaluating the robustness of magnetic surfaces, Physics of Plasmas 33.5 (2026). A. M. Wright. [Featured article]
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Books
🦡 An Introduction to Stellarators: From magnetic fields to symmetries and optimization, L.-M. Imbert-Gerard, E. J. Paul and A. M. Wright, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, DOI:10.1137/1.9781611978223 (2024).
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Preprints
🦡 On the accessibility of stable reactor operating regimes in quasi-symmetric stellarators, arXiv:2512.22355 (2025). A. M. Wright and B. J. Faber.
2026
🦡 Innovations in high-fidelity magnetohydrodynamic modelling for advanced stellarators, Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics 10.17 (2026). A. M. Wright.
🦡 Walking on Spheres and Talking to Neighbors: Variance Reduction for Laplace’s Equation, SIGGRAPH Conference Papers ’26 (2026). M. T. Czekanski, B. J. Faber, M. E. Fairborn, A. M. Wright and D. S. Bindel.
🦡 High resolution measurements of core density collapse dynamics in LHD, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 68 (2026). R. Sassella, D. J. Den Hartog, A. M. Wright, Y. Takemura, H. Funaba, N. Kenmochi, J. Sarff, Y. Suzuki, K. Tanaka, H. Uehara, H. Yamaguchi and R. Yasuhara.
🦡 A Diophantine approach to evaluating the robustness of magnetic surfaces, Physics of Plasmas 33.5 (2026). A. M. Wright.
2025
🦡 Bootstrap current modeling in M3D-C1, Journal of Plasma Physics 91.5 (2025). S. Saxena, N. M. Ferraro, M. F. Martin and A. M. Wright.
2024
🦡 MHD-induced beta limits in the Large Helical Device, Physics of Plasmas 31.10 (2024). A. M. Wright and N. M. Ferraro.
🦡 Investigating nonlinear magnetohydrodynamics in an optimized, reactor-scale quasi-axisymmetric stellarator, Physics of Plasmas 31.8 (2024). A. M. Wright and N. M. Ferraro.
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Whitepapers and reports
🦡 Multi-Fidelity Methods for Fusion Energy (link) (2026)
🦡 Critical Role of the Public Theory & Modeling Program for Commercial Fusion Energy (link) (2024)
🦡 Flexible Stellarator Physics Facility (link) (2024)
🦡 Advancing technologies for high-resolution spatial and temporal measurements of macroscopic stellarator flows (link) (2024)
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Papers prior to independent career
🦡 Modelling the nonlinear plasma response to externally applied three-dimensional fields with the Stepped Pressure Equilibrium Code, Journal of Plasma Physics 88.5 (2022). A. M. Wright, P. Kim, N. M. Ferraro and S. R. Hudson.
🦡 Mode spectrum characteristics and onset of the low-shear MHD stability regime, Physics of Plasmas 28.7 (2021). A. M. Wright and N. M. Ferraro.
🦡 Predicting nonresonant pressure-driven MHD modes in equilibria with low magnetic shear, Physics of Plasmas 28.1 (2021). A. M. Wright, N. M. Ferraro, S. R. Hudson, R. L. Dewar and M. J. Hole.
🦡 Computation of linear MHD instabilities with Multi-region Relaxed MHD energy principle, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 63.4 (2021). A. Kumar, Z Qu, M. J. Hole, A. M. Wright, J. Loizu, S. R. Hudson, A. Baillod, R. L. Dewar and N. M. Ferraro.
🦡 Solenogam: A new detector array for -ray and conversion-electron spectroscopy of long-lived states in fusion-evaporation products, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A 953.163136 (2020). M. S. M. Gerathy, G. J. Lane a, G. D. Dracoulis, P. Nieminen, T. Kibédi, M.W. Reed, A. Akber, B. J. Coombes, M. Dasgupta, J. T. H. Dowie, T. J. Gray, D. J. Hinde, B. Q. Lee, A. J. Mitchell, T. Palazzo, A. E. Stuchbery, L. Whichello and A. M. Wright.
🦡 Resistive stability of cylindrical MHD equilibria with radially localized pressure gradients, Physics of Plasmas 26.6 (2019). A. M. Wright, S. R. Hudson, R. L. Dewar and M. J. Hole.
🦡 An experimentally constrained MHD model for a collisional, rotating plasma column, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 59.2 (2017). A. M. Wright, Z. S. Qu, J. F. Caneses and M. J. Hole.
🦡 Three-quasiparticle isomer in 173Ta and the excitation energy dependence of K-forbidden transition rates, Physical Review C 95 (2017). R. T. Wood, P. M. Walker, G. J. Lane, R. J. Carroll, D. M. Cullen, G. D. Dracoulis, S. S. Hota, T. Kibédi, N. Palalani, Zs. Podolyák, M. W. Reed, K. Schiffl, and A. M. Wright.
🦡 Plasmoid solutions of the Hahm–Kulsrud–Taylor equilibrium model, Physics of Plasmas 20.8 (2013). R. L. Dewar, A. Bhattacharjee, R. M. Kulsrud and A. M. Wright.