Physical Review E (Plasma physics)

Author(s): Evgeny V. Polyachenko and Ilia G. Shukhman

Landau-damped oscillations in collisionless plasmas, described by van Kampen and Case, are quasimodes, representing a continuous superposition of singular eigenfunctions, not true eigenmodes. Recent work by Ng et al. shows that even rare collisions replace these singular modes with discrete regular …

[Phys. Rev. E 111, 065213] Published Fri Jun 20, 2025

Author(s): S. Morris, D. O. Gericke, S. Fritzsche, J. Machado, J. P. Santos, and M. Afshari

Recombination effects are shown to modify the charge-state distribution achieved in the acceleration of heavy ions during high-intensity laser-solid interactions. A recombination package has been developed for particle-in-cell codes, which includes dielectronic, radiative, and three-body recombinati…

[Phys. Rev. E 111, 065209] Published Mon Jun 16, 2025

Author(s): Kathryn M. Sturge, Noah Hoppis, Brian L. Beaudoin, Ariana M. Shearin, Ethan T. Basinger, Bryson C. Clifford, Jack R. FitzGibbon, Emily H. Frashure, James E. Krutzler, Abraham A. Levitan, Patrick O'Shea, Holly J. Wilson, and Timothy W. Koeth

Electrostatic discharges occur in numerous media on a range of length scales, from microscopic discharges inside electronic materials to kilometer-long channels in air during natural lightning events. To study the mechanisms and behavior of electrostatic discharges inside materials, we measured the …

[Phys. Rev. E 111, 065207] Published Fri Jun 13, 2025

Author(s): M. W. C. Dharma-wardana and Dennis D. Klug

Experiments at the U.S. National Ignition Facility (NIF) [Döppner et al., Nature (London) 618, 270 (2023)] have created highly compressed hot hydrogenlike Be plasmas. Published analyses of the the NIF experiment have used finite-T multiatom density-functional theory with Molecular dynamics, and Pat…

[Phys. Rev. E 111, 065208] Published Fri Jun 13, 2025

Author(s): D. Turnbull, R. K. Follett, M. Sherlock, D. J. Strozzi, J. Katz, D. Cao, N. R. Shaffer, K. Aytekin, D. H. Edgell, L. Stanton, and D. H. Froula

A spherical-implosion platform diagnosed with the “beamlets” scattered-light detector provides high sensitivity to the impact of plasma screening on inverse bremsstrahlung absorption. Contrary to the more restrictive screening length suggested previously [D. Turnbull et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 14…

[Phys. Rev. E 111, 065206] Published Mon Jun 09, 2025

Author(s): Santu Luo, Dingxin Liu, Wang Xi, Renwu Zhou, Mingyan Zhang, Rusen Zhou, Xiaohua Wang, Mingzhe Rong, and Kostya (Ken) Ostrikov

The phenomenon of discharge mode transition in air plasmas, which refers to the selective production of reactive species under different external conditions, has been a longstanding issue and has regained major attention recently due to emerging plasma applications. In this letter, we present a nove…

[Phys. Rev. E 111, 065205] Published Fri Jun 06, 2025

Author(s): Zhi-Wei Wang, Tie-Huai Zhang, and Wei-Min Wang

We investigate with particle-in-cell simulation the transport of fast electrons of MeV under a kT-level magnetic field produced by a circular coil target, where the fast electrons are generated by a picosecond laser pulse with typical intensity of 5×1019W/cm2 adopted in fast ignition. The fast elect…

[Phys. Rev. E 111, 065204] Published Wed Jun 04, 2025

Author(s): Shu-Chao Duan, Shao-Tong Zhou, Gang-Hua Wang, Ming-Xian Kan, Qiang Xu, Bo Xiao, Hai-Bin Ou, Long Xie, and Qiang Wang

Inertial confinement of fusion plasmas can be realized using the dynamic Z pinch, an electromagnetically driven cylindrical implosion system that is also used to generate intense x rays. However, the Z pinch is subject to magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor (MRT) instability, which must be suppressed for pract…

[Phys. Rev. E 111, 065203] Published Tue Jun 03, 2025

Author(s): Ajaz Mir, Pintu Bandyopadhyay, Madhurima Choudhury, Krishan Kumar, and Abhijit Sen

We compare model solutions of a forced Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (fKP) equation with experimental observations of dust acoustic precursor solitons excited by a supersonically moving charged cylindrical object in a dusty plasma medium. The fKP equation is derived from a three-fluid-Poisson model of the …

[Phys. Rev. E 111, 065201] Published Mon Jun 02, 2025

Author(s): Alan A. Kaptanoglu, Matt Landreman, and Michael C. Zarnstorff

We consider the problem of optimizing a set of passive superconducting coils (PSCs) with currents induced by a background magnetic field rather than power supplies. In the nuclear fusion literature, such coils have been proposed to partially produce the 3D magnetic fields for stellarators and provid…

[Phys. Rev. E 111, 065202] Published Mon Jun 02, 2025

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