Physical Review E (Plasma physics)

Author(s): Iu. Gagarin and Ph. Korneev

The process of direct laser acceleration of plasma electrons is considered in a strongly magnetized plasmoid with the magnetic field strength allowing for reaching the autoresonance without any special injection conditions. The plasmoid may be optically created by irradiation of specially designed t…

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 045204] Published Thu Apr 02, 2026

Author(s): Julien Langlois and Renaud Gueroult

The trajectory of light rays propagating through a nonuniformly moving anisotropic medium is determined by considering the Fresnel drag experienced by the wave at each point along the ray. By showing that symmetries in the velocity field manifest as symmetries in the effective wave index representin…

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 045205] Published Thu Apr 02, 2026

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

We develop a wavepacket molecular dynamics framework for modeling the structural properties of partially ionized dense plasmas, based on a chemical model that explicitly includes bound state wave functions. Using hydrogen as a representative system, we compute self-consistent charge state distributi…

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 045206] Published Thu Apr 02, 2026

Author(s): Laury Batista, Samuel Marini, Nicolas Chauvin, Antoine Chancé, Didier Uriot, and Phu Anh Phi Nghiem

Beyond beam energy and energy spread, transverse beam parameters are crucial in laser-plasma accelerator projects that aim to deliver a high-quality beam to a user's community. In this article, transverse beam physics is thoroughly studied throughout an entire plasma stage, including a plasma densit…

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 045207] Published Thu Apr 02, 2026

Author(s): Jiheon Song, Jeff Candy, Emily Belli, and Jungpyo Lee

The role of zonal flow (ZF) in the turbulence saturation of trapped electron modes (TEM) in magnetically confined plasmas is revisited. In this study, we examine ZF excitation and saturation mechanisms in TEM turbulence using detailed free-energy transfer diagnostics from nonlinear gyrokinetic simul…

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 045201] Published Wed Apr 01, 2026

Author(s): Xufei Xie et al.

Detailed investigation of the x-ray drive on the capsule at the center of the hohlraum is crucial to solve the “drive deficit” problem in inertial confinement fusion. A pioneering work for probing the drive flux at the hohlraum center by simultaneously measuring the re-emitted flux and shock velocit…

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 045202] Published Wed Apr 01, 2026

Author(s): Cunbo Zhang, Zongqiang Ma, Yang Song, Cheng-quan Fu, Zhengfeng Fan, Anmin He, and Pei Wang

Within the equilibrium-diffusion approximation for radiation, we perform a linear stability analysis of the compressible Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a stratified, isothermal background. Radiation alters the growth rate by modulating the fluid's effective compressibility. Radiative diffusion enhan…

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 045203] Published Wed Apr 01, 2026

Author(s): Robert H. Dwyer, K. D. Meaney, B. M. Haines, B. J. Albright, H. Geppert-Kleinrath, J. P. Sauppe, W. Daughton, N. M. Hoffman, C. Forrest, S. P. Regan, and Y. Kim

For high-efficiency inertial confinement fusion implosions, it is predicted that a burning hot spot will successfully encompass all surrounding fuel and then transition into a thermal runaway where the internal energy increase from fusion occurs on a timescale faster than the expansion of the fuel i…

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 035214] Published Fri Mar 27, 2026

Author(s): Alain Ghizzo and Daniele Del Sarto

We investigate the formation of Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal-type E×B staircase equilibrium in the presence of energetic ions. We show that such staircase solutions, which display crucial kinetic features and which propagate like coherent electrostatic structures, represent saturated states of negative …

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 035212] Published Thu Mar 26, 2026

Author(s): Khristina T. Smaznova, Pavel K. Batrakov, Andrey A. Rodionov, and Alexander V. Oginov

A dual-wavelength high-sensitivity laser diagnostic based on a Nd:YAG laser (532 and 1064 nm, pulse duration of 7 ns) was applied to a laboratory high-voltage atmospheric discharge. The applied voltage was 1 MV, and the discharge current reached 10 kA. The discharge gap length was 0.55 m. The electr…

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 035211] Published Wed Mar 25, 2026

Author(s): S. A. Saakyan

Rapidly oscillating, inhomogeneous electromagnetic field from laser exert a force that repels charged particles from regions of high light intensity. We propose and analyze a flat-bottomed hollow-beam ponderomotive optical trap for an ultracold neutral plasma (UNP), driven by a high-power CO2 laser.…

[Phys. Rev. E 113, L033201] Published Wed Mar 25, 2026

Author(s): Romain Pioch, Pascal Chabert, and Victor Désangles

The ion flux direction in a rapidly diverging magnetic field and the role of Earth's magnetic field in plasma dynamics are investigated experimentally using a low power electron cyclotron resonance thruster. The comparison between ion trajectories measured with a directional Faraday cup and the magn…

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 035209] Published Tue Mar 24, 2026

Author(s): Sean Gopalakrishnan, Xu Wang, Mihály Horányi, Vladimir Kvon, Manis Chaudhuri, Andrei Yakunin, Luuk Heijmans, Hariprasad Gangadharan, Pavel Krainov, and Dmitry Astakhov

We present experimental results of dust mobilization on a solid surface under an electron beam with grazing incidence. When the electron beam energy has a secondary electron yield greater than 1, dust particles move in the opposite direction of the electron beam. This is caused by asymmetric chargin…

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 035210] Published Tue Mar 24, 2026

Author(s): Xiaofei Shen, Yue-Yue Chen, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan, and Christoph H. Keitel

Relativistic electrons colliding with intense counterpropagating laser pulses are expected to lose energy through radiation reaction. However, we reveal a counterintuitive regime where reflected leptons (including incident electrons, generated electrons, and positrons) gain significant energies when…

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 035208] Published Wed Mar 18, 2026

Author(s): Shuo Wang, Miao Zhang, Nan Wang, Rui Li, Fucheng Liu, Xiaoxuan Li, Jing Wang, and Weili Fan

Plasma, as a dispersive medium, is widely utilized to control the propagation of electromagnetic waves, particularly in structures such as plasma photonic crystals. Here we propose a plasma photonic crystal heterostructure (PPCH) by strategic integration of Lieb superlattice and honeycomb superlatti…

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 035207] Published Fri Mar 13, 2026

Author(s): Luiz Gustavo Ferreira Soares, Thonimar V. Alencar, and Ronaldo Thibes

We investigate the complex nonlinear dynamics of a quasi-one-dimensional single-component plasma confined in a time-dependent harmonic trap. The system is described as a fluid in a hydrodynamic framework, incorporating electrostatic and thermal effects. By applying a time-dependent variational metho…

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 035206] Published Wed Mar 11, 2026

Author(s): Y. Zhang, P. V. Heuer, H. Wen, J. R. Davies, C. Ren, D. B. Schaeffer, E. G. Blackman, J. Zhang, A. Bret, and F. García-Rubio

Energy partition between ions and electrons in collisionless shocks has been a long-standing unsolved fundamental physical question. We show that kinetic simulations of moderate Alfvénic Mach number, magnetized, collisionless shocks reveal rapid, faster-than-Coulomb, energy exchange between ions and…

[Phys. Rev. E 113, 035205] Published Tue Mar 10, 2026

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