Physical Review E (Plasma physics)

Author(s): E. V. Parkevich, K. V. Shpakov, A. I. Khirianova, K. S. Vinogradova, A. A. Tarasenko, and D. V. Antonov

We investigate the processes of plasma formation and phase transitions occurring during the explosion of metal point emitters made from copper and tungsten wires approximately 1 mm in length and ∼10 µm in diameter. The experiments were performed under vacuum-to-forevacuum discharge conditions using …

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 035203] Published Fri Mar 06, 2026

Author(s): L. F. B. Souza, Y. Elskens, R. Egydio de Carvalho, and I. L. Caldas

We derive a two-dimensional symplectic map for particle motion at the plasma edge by modeling the electrostatic potential as a superposition of integer spatial harmonics with relative phase shift, then reduce it to a two-wave model to study the transport dependence on the perturbation amplitudes, re…

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 035204] Published Fri Mar 06, 2026

Author(s): Katarina A. Nichols, S. X. Hu, Nathaniel R. Shaffer, Brennan Arnold, Deyan I. Mihaylov, Valeri N. Goncharov, Valentin V. Karasiev, William Trickey, Alexander J. White, Lee A. Collins, Duc Cao, and Rahul C. Shah

Accurate hydrodynamic modeling for laser-direct-drive (LDD) inertial confinement fusion (ICF) relies on precise calculations of the electron thermal conduction in all target materials. The nonlocal stopping range of electrons in ICF plasmas directly influences thermal conduction; yet, no first-princ…

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 035202] Published Wed Mar 04, 2026

Author(s): Tomohiro Tanogami, Makoto Sasaki, and Tatsuya Kobayashi

Magnetically confined fusion plasmas exhibit predator-prey-like cyclic oscillations through the self-regulating interaction between drift-wave turbulence and zonal flow. To elucidate the detailed mechanism and causality underlying this phenomenon, we construct a simple stochastic predator-prey model…

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 035201] Published Tue Mar 03, 2026

Author(s): Ze Chen, Yunliang Wang, Lipan Qin, Meiqi Sun, Zhongyi Chen, Yan Tian, Jin Yan, Xunjie Ma, Yan Wang, Xinlu Xu, and Xueqing Yan

We report a unique regime for generating zeptosecond pulses (ZPs) to break the attosecond timescale barrier through cascaded coherent synchrotron emission driven by ultraintense x-ray laser-pulse-excited wakefields in foil. When an x-ray laser pulse interacts with the near-critical-density but exact…

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 025209] Published Tue Feb 24, 2026

Author(s): P. Hadjisolomou, P. Valenta, R. Shaisultanov, T. M. Jeong, S. V. Bulanov, D. Gorlova, and C. P. Ridgers

We consider injection and subsequent acceleration of electrons in narrow plasma channels irradiated by linearly and radially polarized ultraintense laser pulses. Using three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations, we show that radially polarized beams significantly promote electron release from th…

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 025208] Published Mon Feb 23, 2026

Author(s): M. Leconte and T. S. Hahm

In this work, we describe a possible mechanism to set the radial scale of zonal flows, which may be applicable to the E×B staircase found in the global full-f simulations such as in Dif-Pradalier et al., [Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 085004 (2015)]. One-dimensional numerical simulation results of the Cahn-…

[Phys. Rev. E 113, L023201] Published Fri Feb 20, 2026

Author(s): A. Alvarez Laguna and K. Hara

Linearized moment equations are often used to derive closure models for the hydrodynamic equations of multicomponent plasmas near thermodynamic equilibrium. However, the linearized transport equations lose their validity in rarefied conditions or in the presence of strong electric fields, when the v…

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 025207] Published Thu Feb 19, 2026

Author(s): I. A. Nikolaeva, D. E. Shipilo, G. E. Rizaev, A. V. Koribut, T. A. Dick, D. V. Pushkarev, M. V. Levus, Ya. V. Grudtsyn, N. R. Vrublevskaya, N. A. Panov, O. G. Kosareva, L. V. Seleznev, and A. A. Ionin

We used filamentation of 940 nm, 90 fs, up to 6.5 mJ pulse to measure the spatial and spectral distributions of the second harmonic with 10−9 conversion efficiency in comparatively long focusing geometry (40 cm and 100 cm focal lengths, ≥1 cm filament), as well as spectral distributions of the secon…

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 025206] Published Tue Feb 17, 2026

Author(s): Zhuwen Lin, Yao Zhao, Hongwei Yin, Yilin Xu, Yaozhi Yi, Huanhuan Wu, and Jingxuan Mo

In this work, we investigate the competition among collective modes and single-beam side scatter (SSRS) of stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) in multibeam configuration, utilizing theoretical analysis and particle simulations. The shared common electrostatic (SCE) wave is excited, when the crossing a…

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 025205] Published Fri Feb 13, 2026

Author(s): Hossein Mehrpour Bernety, Dikshitulu K. Kalluri, and Mark A. Cappelli

Time-varying media enable electromagnetic nonreciprocity, frequency conversion, and the production of momentum space bandgaps in time crystals. However, most theoretical descriptions contain fundamental omissions in their treatment of how the medium properties are modulated, notably in the creation …

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 025204] Published Thu Feb 12, 2026

Author(s): Luisa Izquierdo, Felipe Veloso, Miguel Escalona, Vicente Valenzuela-Villaseca, Gonzalo Avaria, and Julio Valenzuela

The influence of conical wire array geometry on the formation and dynamics of pulsed-power driven plasma jets is investigated. In the experiments, the jet becomes isolated from the inflows as it passes through an aperture, allowing the study of its intrinsic evolution for different conical angles. O…

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 025203] Published Wed Feb 11, 2026

Author(s): Zhenhua Zhou, Xiaokun Wang, Hanyang Li, Julian Schulze, Peter Hartmann, Zoltán Donkó, Yongxin Liu, and Yangyang Fu

Similarity laws (SLs) describe how physical characteristics in plasma discharges remain consistent at different dimensional scales, and they have been verified in electropositive capacitively coupled radio-frequency (RF) plasmas across a wide range of discharge conditions. In this work, we explore t…

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 025202] Published Mon Feb 09, 2026

Author(s): Daniels Krimans and Hanno Kählert

We consider a recently developed variational approach to the ideal (nondissipative) hydrodynamics of strongly coupled plasmas [D. Krimans and S. Putterman, Phys. Fluids 36, 037131 (2024)] and extend it to the Yukawa one-component plasma. This approach generalizes the ordinary hydrodynamic equations …

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 025201] Published Thu Feb 05, 2026

Author(s): Peng Wang, Yogeshwar Nath Mishra, Seth Pree, Lihong V. Wang, Dag Hanstorp, John P. Koulakis, Daniels Krimans, and Seth Putterman

Using a camera with 2-picosecond time resolution, researchers show that the atoms in a laser-induced plasma are more highly ionized than theory predicts.

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 015209] Published Fri Jan 30, 2026

Author(s): Rohit Kumar Srivastav and Mrityunjay Kundu

We propose a method for the laser-excitation of terahertz surface magnetoplasmons via the linear mode conversion of terahertz radiation on a graphene sheet deposited on an n-type semiconductor in the presence of an external magnetic field parallel to the semiconductor surface. An obliquely incident …

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 015208] Published Fri Jan 23, 2026

Author(s): M. B. Khan, M. A. Shay, S. Oughton, W. H. Matthaeus, C. C. Haggerty, S. Adhikari, P. A. Cassak, S. Fordin, D. O'Donnell, Y. Yang, R. Bandyopadhyay, and S. Roy

We study the statistics of dynamical quantities associated with magnetic reconnection events embedded in a sea of strong background magnetohydrodynamic turbulence using direct numerical simulations. We focus on the relationship of the reconnection properties to the statistics of global turbulent fie…

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 015207] Published Thu Jan 22, 2026

Author(s): Q. Yu and Y. Zhang

By tailoring the target density to a radial gradient distribution, we propose a proton focusing mechanism. This mechanism is based on the focusing radial electric field self-induced by the radial density gradient. This field, different from the defocusing field of a uniform density target, focuses n…

[Phys. Rev. E 113, L013201] Published Wed Jan 21, 2026

Author(s): A. V. Branitsky, M. M. Basko, E. V. Grabovski, A. N. Gritsuk, K. N. Mitrofanov, V. V. Ryzhakov, and I. N. Frolov

The article presents the results of experiments on studying the radiation heating of targets by soft x-rays (SXRs) of the Z-pinch of a wire array. The SXR power pulses had amplitudes of up to 10 TW and a duration of ∼6−10ns at half-maximum. In this series of experiments, the main focus was on the dy…

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 015206] Published Tue Jan 20, 2026

Author(s): Souvik Das and Pralay Kumar Karmakar

We investigate the influence of nonlinear gravity corrections, arising from the Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld (EiBI) theory on wave dynamics, stability, and energy transport processes in polytropic, viscous, and turbulent solar plasmas. Analytical and numerical analyses of the Jeans-normalized quad…

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 015205] Published Thu Jan 15, 2026