Physical Review E (Plasma physics)

Author(s): A. E. Davletov, F. Kurbanov, and Ye. S. Mukhametkarimov

A chemical model is proposed for a dusty plasma consisting of electrons, ions, neutrals, and positively charged dust particles all being at thermodynamic equilibrium. An expression is derived for the Helmholtz free energy, which comprises the ideal part, taking into account the charge of dust partic...

[Phys. Rev. E 101, 063203] Published Fri Jun 05, 2020

Author(s): R. A. Heinonen and P. H. Diamond

A central problem of turbulence theory is to produce a predictive model for turbulent fluxes. These have profound implications for virtually all aspects of the turbulence dynamics. In magnetic confinement devices, drift-wave turbulence produces anomalous fluxes via cross-correlations between fluctua...

[Phys. Rev. E 101, 061201(R)] Published Thu Jun 04, 2020

Author(s): Lucia Potočňáková, Petr Synek, and Tomáš Hoder

The interaction of dielectric barrier discharge plasma and silicone-oil liquid droplet in a Hele-Shaw cell was investigated experimentally employing synchronized optical and electrical time-resolved measurements. Temporal development of the destabilization, stretching, and fragmentation of the plasm...

[Phys. Rev. E 101, 063201] Published Mon Jun 01, 2020

Author(s): Arnab Kar, S. X. Hu, G. Duchateau, J. Carroll-Nellenback, and P. B. Radha

A microphysics model to describe the photoionization and impact ionization processes in dielectric ablator materials like plastic has been implemented into the one-dimensional hydrodynamic code LILAC for planar and spherical targets. At present, the initial plasma formation during the early stages o...

[Phys. Rev. E 101, 063202] Published Mon Jun 01, 2020

Author(s): S. Cousens, M. Yeung, M. Zepf, and B. Dromey

We present an in-depth analysis of an ultrafast electron trajectory type that produces attosecond electromagnetic pulses in both the reflected and forward directions during normal incidence, relativistic laser-plasma interactions. Our particle-in-cell simulation results show that for a target which ...

[Phys. Rev. E 101, 053210] Published Thu May 28, 2020

Author(s): B. Z. Chen, D. Wu, J. R. Ren, D. H. H. Hoffmann, and Y. T. Zhao

Transport of particle beams in plasmas is widely employed in fundamental research, industry, and medicine. Due to the high inertia of ion beams, their transport in plasmas is usually assumed to be stable. Here we report the focusing and flapping of intense slab proton beams transporting through larg...

[Phys. Rev. E 101, 051203(R)] Published Tue May 26, 2020

Author(s): Zhiyuan Chen, Yibai Wang, Haibin Tang, Junxue Ren, Min Li, Zhe Zhang, Shuai Cao, and Jinbin Cao

Magnetic nozzles are convergent-divergent applied magnetic fields which are commonly used in electric propulsion, manufacturing, and material processing industries. This paper studies the previously overlooked physics in confining the thermalized ions injected from a near-uniform inlet in the magnet...

[Phys. Rev. E 101, 053208] Published Tue May 26, 2020

Author(s): Zhen-Guo Fu, Zhigang Wang, Chongjie Mo, Dafang Li, Weijie Li, Yong Lu, Wei Kang, Xian-Tu He, and Ping Zhang

In this work, we studied the stopping power of deuterium-tritium (DT) plasmas mixed with impurities to the injected charged particles. Based on the Brown-Preston-Singleton model, the analytical expression for the change ratio of stopping power (denoted by η) induced by impurities in DT plasmas is de...

[Phys. Rev. E 101, 053209] Published Tue May 26, 2020

Author(s): C. H. Woo, M. H. Woo, Cheong R. Choi, and K. W. Min

We studied parallel propagating electromagnetic waves in a magnetized quantum electron plasma of finite temperature, as an extension of our previous study on a zero temperature plasma. We obtained simple analytic dispersion relations in the long wavelength limit that included the thermal effect as c...

[Phys. Rev. E 101, 053207] Published Fri May 22, 2020

Author(s): S. H. Cao, R. Yan, H. Wen, J. Li, and C. Ren

Interactions of two-plasmon decay (TPD) and side-stimulated Raman scattering (SSRS) were studied using three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations under inertial-confinement-fusion-relevant conditions for linearly and circularly polarized lasers. In the linear stage, SSRS took place under ne=0.23...

[Phys. Rev. E 101, 053205] Published Thu May 21, 2020

Author(s): Sam Yaghoubi, Abbas Ghasemizad, and Soheil Khoshbinfar

Compressing and charge neutralization of the heavy-ion beam in an inertial fusion reactor are considered as pivotal processes for increasing the energy gain. For this purpose, the ion beam is usually transported through the plasma channel so that multispecies Weibel instability can grow in this syst...

[Phys. Rev. E 101, 053206] Published Thu May 21, 2020

Author(s): D. Wu, W. Yu, Z. M. Sheng, S. Fritzsche, and X. T. He

With the recent realization of kilotesla quasistatic magnetic fields, the interaction of a laser with magnetized solids enters an unexplored new regime. In particular, a circularly polarized (CP) laser pulse may propagate in a highly magnetized plasma of any high density without encountering cutoff ...

[Phys. Rev. E 101, 051202(R)] Published Wed May 20, 2020

Author(s): Sergey A. Khrapak and Boris A. Klumov

In a recent paper [Wang, Huang, and Feng, Phys. Rev. E 99, 063206 (2019)], Langevin dynamical simulation results related to the shear modulus G of a two-dimensional liquid dusty plasma were reported. The purpose of this Comment is to provide a comparison with available theoretical models to calculat...

[Phys. Rev. E 101, 057201] Published Wed May 20, 2020

Author(s): Dong Huang, Shaoyu Lu, and Yan Feng

In the preceding Comment [Khrapak and Klumov, preceding Comment, Phys. Rev. E 101, 057201 (2020)], a completely different method is used to calculate the shear modulus of two-dimensional Yukawa solids. Here the results of the shear modulus of two-dimensional Yukawa solids obtained in a previous work...

[Phys. Rev. E 101, 057202] Published Wed May 20, 2020

Author(s): R. C. Mancini, T. E. Lockard, D. C. Mayes, I. M. Hall, G. P. Loisel, J. E. Bailey, G. A. Rochau, J. Abdallah, Jr., I. E. Golovkin, and D. Liedahl

We discuss the experimental and modeling results for the x-ray heating and temperature of laboratory photoionized plasmas. A method is used to extract the electron temperature based on the analysis of transmission spectroscopy data that is independent of atomic kinetics modeling. The results emphasi...

[Phys. Rev. E 101, 051201(R)] Published Mon May 18, 2020

Author(s): Nathaniel R. Shaffer and Charles E. Starrett

We present a new model of electron transport in warm and hot dense plasmas which combines the quantum Landau-Fokker-Planck equation with the concept of mean-force scattering. We obtain electrical and thermal conductivities across several orders of magnitude in temperature, from warm dense matter con...

[Phys. Rev. E 101, 053204] Published Mon May 18, 2020

Author(s): Zh. A. Moldabekov, T. Dornheim, M. Bonitz, and T. S. Ramazanov

We investigate the energy-loss characteristics of an ion in warm dense matter (WDM) and dense plasmas concentrating on the influence of electronic correlations. The basis for our analysis is a recently developed ab initio quantum Monte Carlo– (QMC) based machine learning representation of the static...

[Phys. Rev. E 101, 053203] Published Thu May 14, 2020

Author(s): R. Nuter, Ph. Korneev, E. Dmitriev, I. Thiele, and V. T. Tikhonchuk

Three-dimensional “particle in cell” simulations show that a quasistatic magnetic field can be generated in a plasma irradiated by a linearly polarized Laguerre-Gauss beam with a nonzero orbital angular momentum (OAM). Perturbative analysis of the electron dynamics in the low intensity limit and det...

[Phys. Rev. E 101, 053202] Published Wed May 06, 2020

Author(s): Damian C. Swift, Mandy Bethkenhagen, Alfredo A. Correa, Thomas Lockard, Sebastien Hamel, Lorin X. Benedict, Philip A. Sterne, and Bard I. Bennett

Atom-in-jellium calculations of the Einstein frequency were used to calculate the mean displacement of an ion over a wide range of compression and temperature. Expressed as a fraction of the Wigner-Seitz radius, the displacement is a measure of the asymptotic freedom of the ion at high temperature, ...

[Phys. Rev. E 101, 053201] Published Mon May 04, 2020

Author(s): G. Varillon, J.-M. Clarisse, and A. Couairon

We carry out a numerical investigation of three-dimensional linear perturbations in a self-similar ablation wave in slab symmetry, representative of the shock transit phase of a pellet implosion in inertial confinement fusion (ICF). The physics of ablation is modeled by the equation of gas dynamics ...

[Phys. Rev. E 101, 043215] Published Thu Apr 30, 2020