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Probing the radiation-dominated regime of laser-plasma interaction in multibeam configurations of petawatt lasers

Wed, 04/23/2025 - 10:00

Author(s): T. V. Liseykina, E. E. Peganov, and S. V. Popruzhenko

We numerically model the ultrarelativistic dynamics of a dense plasma microtarget, in a focus of several intersecting femtosecond laser pulses of multipetawatt power each. The aim is to examine prospective experimental approaches to the search for the Inverse Faraday Effect induced by radiation fric…


[Phys. Rev. E 111, 045212] Published Wed Apr 23, 2025

Relativistically magnetized collisionless shocks in pair plasma: Solitons, chaos, and thermalization

Mon, 04/21/2025 - 10:00

Author(s): Arno Vanthieghem and Amir Levinson

In this paper, the first in a series, we present a new theoretical model for the global structure and dissipation of relativistically magnetized collisionless shock waves. Quite remarkably, we find that in contrast to unmagnetized shocks, the leading energy dissipation channel does not involve colle…


[Phys. Rev. E 111, 045209] Published Mon Apr 21, 2025

Extended self-similarity in two-dimensional complex plasmas

Mon, 04/21/2025 - 10:00

Author(s): V. Nosenko

Self-similarity is a property of an object or process wherein a part is similar to the whole. Mathematically, it can often be expressed as a power-law scaling of the quantity of interest. Extended self-similarity is a concept widely used in the field of turbulence and refers to the power-law scaling…


[Phys. Rev. E 111, 045210] Published Mon Apr 21, 2025

Short-range ordering and equilibrium structure of binary crystal mixtures of atomic nuclei in white dwarf cores

Mon, 04/21/2025 - 10:00

Author(s): D. A. Baiko

Mixtures of bare atomic nuclei on a nearly uniform degenerate electron background are a realistic model of matter in the interior of white dwarfs. Despite tremendous progress in understanding their phase diagrams achieved mainly via first-principle simulations, structural, thermodynamic, and kinetic…


[Phys. Rev. E 111, 045211] Published Mon Apr 21, 2025

Modeling of warm dense hydrogen via explicit real-time electron dynamics: Electron transport properties

Tue, 04/15/2025 - 10:00

Author(s): Pontus Svensson, Patrick Hollebon, Daniel Plummer, Sam M. Vinko, and Gianluca Gregori

We extract electron transport properties from atomistic simulations of a two-component plasma by mapping the long-wavelength behavior to a two-fluid model. The mapping procedure is performed via Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling over multiple spectra simultaneously. The free-electron dynamic structu…


[Phys. Rev. E 111, 045208] Published Tue Apr 15, 2025

Detection of surface waves during femtosecond filamentation

Fri, 04/11/2025 - 10:00

Author(s): Travis Garrett, Anna Janicek, J. Todd Fayard, II, and Jennifer Elle

Ultrashort pulsed lasers can produce thin columns of plasma in the air via femtosecond filamentation, and these plasmas have been found to generate broadband terahertz and radio frequency (RF) radiation. A recent theory argues that the currents driven at the boundary of the plasma excite a surface p…


[Phys. Rev. E 111, 045206] Published Fri Apr 11, 2025

Interplay of turbulent transport and Reynolds stress in drift-wave turbulence

Fri, 04/11/2025 - 10:00

Author(s): R. Sarkis, N. Dumerat, B. Schmid, G. E. M. Tovar, and M. Ramisch

The dynamical interplay between turbulent particle transport (Γ) and Reynolds stress (ℜ) at the edge of toroidal magnetically confined plasmas is experimentally investigated on the basis of the cross-coupling between density and potential fluctuations in drift-wave turbulence. Both Γ and ℜ are found…


[Phys. Rev. E 111, 045207] Published Fri Apr 11, 2025

Enhanced terahertz emission from the wakefield of ${\text{CO}}_{2}$-laser-created plasma

Thu, 04/10/2025 - 10:00

Author(s): Srimanta Maity and Garima Arora

High-field terahertz (THz) pulse generation is investigated through the interaction of an intense single-color CO2 laser pulse with helium (He) gas targets. Employing particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations, this study reveals a substantial enhancement in THz generation efficiency, even with a single-col…


[Phys. Rev. E 111, 045205] Published Thu Apr 10, 2025

Nonempirical approximation for the ionic thermal contribution to the equations of state based on average-atom models

Wed, 04/09/2025 - 10:00

Author(s): A. A. Ovechkin, P. A. Loboda, and P. A. Sapozhnikov

A simple nonempirical approximation is proposed to calculate the ionic thermal contribution to the average-atom equations of state. The approximation represents the main regularities of temperature and mass-density dependences of the ionic thermodynamic-function components revealed from the pseudoat…


[Phys. Rev. E 111, 045204] Published Wed Apr 09, 2025

Randomization of a laser wave front by the turbulent gas-puff $Z$-pinch plasma column

Tue, 04/08/2025 - 10:00

Author(s): A. Rososhek, E. S. Lavine, B. R. Kusse, W. M. Potter, and D. A. Hammer

In this paper, we present the first direct experimental evidence supported by numerical modeling of a turbulent plasma column formed during a gas-puff z-pinch implosion generated by the cobra current. Utilizing an imaging refractometer, we showed a significant decrease in spatial autocorrelation of …


[Phys. Rev. E 111, 045202] Published Tue Apr 08, 2025

Coherent puff and slugs in transitional drift-wave turbulence

Tue, 04/08/2025 - 10:00

Author(s): P. Manz, S. Knauer, C. Moon, N. Fahrenkamp, D. Di Matteo, and A. Fujisawa

The long-term development of the transitional regime of drift-wave turbulence is studied in a magnetized plasma column by means of the conditional-average technique. In the transitional regime, small changes in the magnetic-field strength as control parameter lead to large changes in the correlation…


[Phys. Rev. E 111, 045203] Published Tue Apr 08, 2025

Quadrilateral particle arrangement within shocks in a two-dimensional dusty plasma

Fri, 04/04/2025 - 10:00

Author(s): Anton Kananovich and J. Goree

The microscopic structure within a two-dimensional shock was studied using data from a dusty plasma experiment. A single layer of charged microparticles, levitated in a glow-discharge plasma, was perturbed by an electrically floating wire that was moved at a steady supersonic speed to excite a compr…


[Phys. Rev. E 111, 045201] Published Fri Apr 04, 2025

Electron acceleration in ambient air using tightly focused ultrashort infrared laser beams

Thu, 03/27/2025 - 10:00

Author(s): Marianna Lytova, François Fillion-Gourdeau, Simon Vallières, Sylvain Fourmaux, Stéphane Payeur, Jeffrey Powell, François Légaré, and Steve MacLean

Recent experimental and theoretical results have demonstrated the possibility of accelerating electrons in the MeV range by focusing tightly a few-cycle laser beam in ambient air [S. Vallières et al., High dose-rate MeV electron beam from a tightly-focused femtosecond IR laser in ambient air, Laser…


[Phys. Rev. E 111, 035210] Published Thu Mar 27, 2025

Compact spin-polarized positron acceleration in multilayer microhole-array films

Tue, 03/25/2025 - 10:00

Author(s): Zhen-Ke Dou, Chong Lv, Yousef I. Salamin, Nan Zhang, Feng Wan, Zhong-Feng Xu, and Jian-Xing Li

Compact spin-polarized positron accelerators play a major role in promoting significant positron application research, which typically require high acceleration gradients and polarization degrees, both of which, however, are still greatly challenging. Here, we put forward a spin-polarized positron a…


[Phys. Rev. E 111, 035209] Published Tue Mar 25, 2025

Influence of the two-temperature effect on ionization potential depression in hot dense plasma

Mon, 03/24/2025 - 10:00

Author(s): Qingbo Luo, Xin Liang, Chengliang Lin, Xinlian Zhang, Jianpeng Liu, Cheng Gao, Yong Hou, and Jianmin Yuan

In hot dense plasma, the interaction between charged particles leads to the ionization potential depression (IPD), which further affects the physical properties of plasma, such as opacity and equation of state. The experiment of IPD of solid-density Al plasma has indicated that present theoretical m…


[Phys. Rev. E 111, 035208] Published Mon Mar 24, 2025

Nonlinear saturation of the two-plasmon decay instability in magnetized plasmas

Tue, 03/18/2025 - 10:00

Author(s): X. X. Li, R. J. Cheng, Qing Wang, D. J. Liu, S. Y. Lv, Z. M. Huang, S. T. Zhang, Z. J. Chen, Z. Y. Xu, Qiang Wang, Z. J. Liu, L. H. Cao, C. Y. Zheng, and X. T. He

It is shown that the Landau damping of electron plasma waves (EPWs) is significantly enhanced in a transverse magnetic field with tens of teslas due to a strong modification of the electron velocity distribution function formed in the two-plasmon-decay (TPD) process. The Landau damping even in the r…


[Phys. Rev. E 111, 035207] Published Tue Mar 18, 2025

Resonance broadening effects of weak turbulence on Earth's radiation belt electrons

Tue, 03/18/2025 - 10:00

Author(s): Xiongdong Yu, Zhigang Yuan, Dedong Wang, Oliver Allanson, and Samuel Hunter

The dynamics of electrons in space plasmas, such as the earth’s radiation belts, are affected by the presence of wave turbulence, even when a resonance condition is not satisfied. The authors propose an expression to describe this resonance broadening effect, and find that it compares well with test particle simulation results. The study is applied to whistler-mode chorus waves in the radiation belt’s electrons, but can be easily extended to a wide range of systems.

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[Phys. Rev. E 111, L033201] Published Tue Mar 18, 2025

Conservative dielectric functions and electrical conductivities from the multicomponent Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook equation

Mon, 03/17/2025 - 10:00

Author(s): Thomas Chuna and Michael S. Murillo

A considerable number of semiempirical and first-principles models have been created to describe the dynamic response of a collisionally damped charged-particle system. However, known challenges persist for established dynamic structure factors (DSFs), dielectric functions, and conductivities. For i…


[Phys. Rev. E 111, 035206] Published Mon Mar 17, 2025

Lightning as a natural source of synchrotron radiation of x-ray and gamma-ray photons

Fri, 03/14/2025 - 10:00

Author(s): N. I. Petrov

Lightning is a source of x-ray and gamma radiation, one of the most powerful natural photon emissions on Earth. In the paper, based on recently published measurement data, we explain the experimental results and state that the observed high-energy radiation is generated by synchrotron and cyclotron …


[Phys. Rev. E 111, 035205] Published Fri Mar 14, 2025

Modulation instability of the ion-acoustic soliton in spin-polarized plasma under Bohm potential

Thu, 03/13/2025 - 10:00

Author(s): A. Rezvani, S. Miraboutalebi, L. Rajaei, and M. R. Sharifian

The existence and stability criteria of one-dimensional ion-acoustic solitons in a quantum cold, over-dense plasma are investigated through theoretical and numerical analyses. Within the quantum magnetohydrodynamic dominant regime, distinct governing equations are employed for spin-up and spin-down …


[Phys. Rev. E 111, 035204] Published Thu Mar 13, 2025

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