Physical Review E (Plasma physics)

Author(s): S. X. Hu, N. R. Shaffer, B. Arnold, K. A. Nichols, V. V. Karasiev, S. Zhang, and V. N. Goncharov

Recent experimental demonstrations of ignition and target gain in inertial confinement fusion (ICF) have stimulated interest in exploring the fundamental physics of violent deuterium-tritium (DT) burn in high-gain ICF targets. A significant DT-burn fraction is a necessary condition for high energy g…

[Phys. Rev. E 111, L053202] Published Fri May 30, 2025

Author(s): P. Rodríguez-Beltrán, J. M. Gil, R. Rodríguez, and G. Espinosa-Vivas

Ion fast ignition by laser-driven ion beams is an interesting approach within the inertial confinement fusion scheme to achieve nuclear fusion. In the ion fast ignition, once the precompression of the target is finished, a sphere of fully ionized deuterium-tritium (DT) is obtained. In this work, we …

[Phys. Rev. E 111, 055206] Published Wed May 28, 2025

Author(s): J. Candy, A. Dudkovskaia, and E. A. Belli

Using a wave-number-advection algorithm, we describe a method to add global profile curvature terms to the local gyrokinetic equations. This approach enables a high-precision global simulation capability without sacrificing the efficiency and spectral accuracy of local simulations. Preliminary numer…

[Phys. Rev. E 111, L053201] Published Thu May 22, 2025

Author(s): Haidar Al-Naseri and Gert Brodin

For many purposes, classical plasma dynamics models can work surprisingly well, even for strong electromagnetic fields, approaching the Schwinger critical fields, and high frequencies, approaching the Compton frequency. However, the applicability of classical models tends to depend rather sensitivel…

[Phys. Rev. E 111, 055205] Published Fri May 16, 2025

Author(s): K. G. Zhao, J. W. Li, L. F. Wang, Z. Y. Li, Z. H. Di, C. Xue, J. Q. Dong, H. Zhang, J. F. Wu, H. B. Zhuo, W. H. Ye, C. T. Zhou, Y. K. Ding, W. Y. Zhang, and X. T. He

We conducted a numerical study of the effects of the modulation amplitude and period of a temporally modulated laser pulse on instabilities at an ablation front. The physical features of the oscillatory acceleration and ablation velocity in unperturbed ablative flows display periodic oscillations. A…

[Phys. Rev. E 111, 055204] Published Thu May 15, 2025

Author(s): Rima Mebrek, Rachid Fermous, Moufida Benzekka, and Rabia Amour

The current study examines, using a nonextensive statistical framework satisfying the H-theorem constraint 0≤q≤2, the dynamics of dust-acoustic shock waves in complex plasmas under the influence of both gravity and microgravity within adiabatic and nonadiabatic fluctuating charge. The results highli…

[Phys. Rev. E 111, 055203] Published Tue May 13, 2025

Author(s): Zijia Chu, Jingfeng Yao, Chengxun Yuan, Ying Wang, Zhongxiang Zhou, and Lin Geng

Mixed-mode oscillation (MMO) is a type of complex dynamic behavior commonly seen in multitimescale dynamical systems. As a typical nonlinear medium, MMOs have been experimentally observed in a variety of plasma systems. However, the underlying microscopic physical mechanisms that are responsible for…

[Phys. Rev. E 111, 055202] Published Thu May 08, 2025

Author(s): G. Röpke, R. Redmer, Max Schörner, Heidi Reinholz, Uwe Kleinschmidt, and M. Bethkenhagen

Density-functional-theory-based molecular dynamics simulations (DFT-MD) are a very successful tool to calculate the electrical conductivity of materials in the region of warm and dense matter. However, it requires a correction to implement the contribution of electron-electron collisions in the low-…

[Phys. Rev. E 111, 055201] Published Tue May 06, 2025

Author(s): G. Radureau and C. Michaut

Radiative shocks are shock waves where radiation plays a crucial role in shaping their dynamics and structure. This study investigates the influence of advanced radiation modeling, using the M1-multigroup moment method, on the properties of radiative shocks. We identify three key effects: the shock …

[Phys. Rev. E 111, 045213] Published Fri Apr 25, 2025

Author(s): André Melzer, Christina Knapek, Daniel Maier, Daniel Mohr, and Stefan Schütt

We have performed experiments on dusty plasmas under the weightlessness conditions of parabolic flights where the dust particles form an extended homogeneous dust cloud. The three-dimensional (3D) dynamic state of the dust cloud is characterized. Therefore, the particle trajectories have been record…

[Phys. Rev. E 111, 045214] Published Fri Apr 25, 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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