Journal of Plasma Physics

Article	Citations
Slow positron production and storage for the ASACUSA-Cusp experiment	177
The Okubo–Weiss-type topological criteria in two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic flows	73
Numerical simulation of an expanding magnetic field plasma thruster: a comparative study for argon, xenon and iodine fuel gases	58
Available energy of trapped electrons in Miller tokamak equilibria	47
On turbulent magnetic reconnection: fast and slow mean steady states	44
Action principles and conservation laws for Chew–Goldberger–Low anisotropic plasmas	40
Hybrid electrostatic waves in linearized gravity	35
Generalized expanding-box formulations of reduced magnetohydrodynamics in the solar wind	31
Asymptotic quasisymmetric high-beta three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic equilibria near axisymmetry	31
Electromagnetic instabilities and plasma turbulence driven by electron-temperature gradient	29
Resonant theory of kinetic ballooning modes in general toroidal geometry – ERRATUM	29
Stellarator equilibrium axis-expansion to all orders in distance from the axis for arbitrary plasma beta	28
Dimits transition in three-dimensional ion-temperature-gradient turbulence	26
Theory of gradient drift instabilities in low-temperature, partially magnetised plasmas	25
Magnetohydrodynamic stability and the effects of shaping: a near-axis view for tokamaks and quasisymmetric stellarators	23
Development of compact tokamak fusion reactor use cases to inform future transport studies	23
Correlations between X-rays, visible light and drive-beam energy loss observed in plasma wakefield acceleration experiments at FACET-II	23
Collisionless relaxation of a Lynden-Bell plasma	23
Iterative approach for time development calculation of tokamak plasma with eddy current effects using a 3D magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium solver	22
Fast magneto-acoustic wave turbulence and the Iroshnikov–Kraichnan spectrum	22
A structure-preserving particle discretisation for the Lenard–Bernstein collision operator	22
Influence of ion and variable dust charge on electron-dust bremsstrahlung emission spectrum in complex plasmas	22
An intuitive form of the energy functional for resistive plasma perturbations	22
Optimisation of gyrokinetic microstability using adjoint methods	22
Seeking turbulence optimized configurations for the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator: ion temperature gradient and electron temperature gradient turbulence	21

Observations of dust fragmentations in the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak	21
Lectures on statistical mechanics	21
A two-dimensional numerical study of ion-acoustic turbulence – ERRATUM	20
Temperature separation under compression of moderately coupled plasma	20
Design and construction of the near-earth space plasma simulation system of the Space Plasma Environment Research Facility	20
Unsupervised classification of fully kinetic simulations of plasmoid instability using self-organizing maps (SOMs)	20
Advanced surrogate model for electron-scale turbulence in tokamak pedestals	19
On the evolution of a large-amplitude, weakly collisional electron plasma wave	19
Non-specular ion reflection at quasiperpendicular collisionless shock front	19
Plasma rotation driven by lasers with zero angular momentum	19
Fast particle trajectories and integrability in quasiaxisymmetric and quasihelical stellarators	18
Steepening of inertial Alfvén waves	18
Lower hybrid current drive for an intense monochromatic applied field	17
The Gardner equation and acoustic solitary waves in plasmas	17
Drift of ablated material after pellet injection in a tokamak	17
Simulation study of the influences of beryllium on the tokamak start-up process	17
Structure and dynamics of magneto-inertial, differentially rotating laboratory plasmas	17
A quasi-isodynamic stellarator configuration towards a fusion power plant	17
Confinement of transitioning particles in bi-helical Wendelstein-type configurations	16
Wave turbulence in inertial electron magnetohydrodynamics	16
Experimental study on the formation and evolution of unconfined counter-helicity spheromaks merging using magnetized coaxial plasma gun	16
Reflection-driven turbulence in the super-Alfvénic solar wind	16
Validation of magnetized gas-jet experiments to investigate the effects of an external magnetic field on laser-plasma instabilities	15
Characterization of admissible quasisymmetries	15
High-density positron beam generation via Breit–Wheeler and trident processes using ultra-intense lasers	15
Poloidal impurity asymmetries, flow and neoclassical transport in pedestals in the plateau and banana regimes	15
Coil optimization for quasi-helically symmetric stellarator configurations	14
Effects of multi-dimensionality and energy exchange on electrostatic current-driven plasma instabilities and turbulence	14
Exact boundary-value solution for an electromagnetic wave propagating in a linearly varying index of refraction	14
Polarization effects in higher-order guiding-centre Lagrangian dynamics	14
Microstability of β ~ 1 tokamak equilibria	14
Symplectic particle-in-cell methods for hybrid plasma models with Boltzmann electrons and space-charge effects	14
Modelling a thrust imparted by a highly ionized magnetic nozzle rf plasma thruster	13
Direct stellarator coil design using global optimization: application to a comprehensive exploration of quasi-axisymmetric devices	13
Conservative formulation of the drift-reduced fluid plasma model	13
Plasma potential shaping using end-electrodes in the Large Plasma Device	13
Omnigenous umbilic stellarators	13
The available energy of trapped electrons: a nonlinear measure for turbulent transport	13
Effect of eigenmode destabilisation by energetic ions on plasma rotation	13
Gyrokinetic simulation of turbulence under lower hybrid wave and electron cyclotron wave combined heating on EAST	13
Development of a radiative divertor simulator using the KAIMIR device	12
Free electron laser in the magnetically dominated regime: simulations with the ONEDFEL code	12
Observation of subcritical shocks in a collisional laboratory plasma: scale dependence near the resistive length	12
Resonant theory of kinetic ballooning modes in general toroidal geometry	12
Bounce-averaged theory in arbitrary multi-well plasmas: solution domains and the graph structure of their connections	12
Conservation of magnetic-helicity fluctuations due to spatial decorrelation of fluxes in decaying MHD turbulence	12
Scale statistics of current sheets in relativistic collisionless plasma turbulence	12
Quasi-parallel propagating solitons in magnetised relativistic electron–positron plasmas	11
Radiative and continuum dampings of reversed shear Alfvén eigenmodes and perturbative analysis limitations for tokamaks	11
Optimal Landau-type closure parameters for two-fluid simulations of plasma turbulence at kinetic scales	11

Enhanced proton acceleration from laser interaction with curved surface nanowire targets	11
Performance and transport in the ARC tokamak	11
RR-induced breaking of ponderomotive invariants in EM modes	11
Variational quantum simulation of the Fokker–Planck equation applied to quantum radiation reaction	11
Data-driven model order reduction for accelerating boundary plasma turbulence simulations	11
Current sheet formation under radiative cooling	11
A family of quasi-axisymmetric stellarators with varied rotational transform	10
Characterizing the velocity-space signature of electron Landau damping	10
Using rational surfaces to improve pellet fuelling in stellarators	10
Particle-based modelling of axisymmetric tandem mirror devices	10
Terahertz radiation in the interaction of a focused laser pulse with plasma	10
Gauge-invariant variational formulations of electromagnetic gyrokinetic theory	10
Turbulence and transport in mirror geometries in the Large Plasma Device	10
Scaling of the Hosking integral in decaying magnetically dominated turbulence	10
The influence of Parker spiral on the reflection-driven turbulence	10
Gyrokinetic moment-based simulations of the Dimits shift	10
Quantum calculation for two-stream instability and advection test of Vlasov–Maxwell equations: numerical evaluation of Hamiltonian simulation	9
Power and particle exhaust for the Infinity Two fusion pilot plant	9
ARC physics basis–magnetohydrodynamics	9
Trapped-particle precession and modes in quasisymmetric stellarators and tokamaks: a near-axis perspective	9
The magnetohydrodynamic equations in terms of waveframe variables	9
Once more: leaky MHD waves in coronal magnetic flux tubes. Analogous to leaky EM waves in dielectric media?	9
Impact of wiggler magnetic field on wakefield generation and electron acceleration by Gaussian, super-Gaussian and Bessel–Gaussian laser pulses propagating in collisionless plasma	9
Terahertz generation by a rotating relativistic electron beam in a magnetized plasma column	9
Density jump for oblique collisionless shocks in pair plasmas: allowed solutions	9
Quasilinear theory of Brillouin resonances in rotating magnetized plasmas	9
Global gyrokinetic simulations of electromagnetic turbulence in stellarator plasmas	9
Linear stability studies for a quasi-axisymmetric equilibrium including plasma flow, drift and viscosity effects	8
Influence of magnetic configuration properties on kinetic ballooning modes in W7-X	8
Elastic overtaking collisions of large-amplitude ion-acoustic solitons	8
Modelling the nonlinear plasma response to externally applied three-dimensional fields with the Stepped Pressure Equilibrium Code	8
Quasilinear modelling of collisional trapped electron modes	8
Fresnel drag in a moving magnetised plasma	8
Laser wakefield acceleration of electrons using Bessel–Gauss doughnut beams for accelerating beam guiding	8
Relativistically strong electromagnetic waves in magnetised plasmas	8
On hydromagnetic wave interactions in collisionless, high-βplasmas	8
Emission of terahertz pulses from near-critical plasma slab under action of p-polarized laser radiation	8
Inverse cascading for initial magnetohydrodynamic turbulence spectra between Saffman and Batchelor	8
Data-driven model for divertor plasma detachment prediction	8
Drift-cyclotron loss-cone instability in 3-D simulations of a sloshing-ion simple mirror	8
An adjoint formulation of energetic particle confinement	8
All-optical Compton scattering at shallow interaction angles	8
Angular splitting and selective acceleration in NiO plasmas generated by laser ablation	8
Kinetic stability of Chapman–Enskog plasmas	8
Transformation of a plasma boundary curvature into electrical impulses moving along a plasma surface	8
Radio-frequency sheath excitation at the extremities of scrape-off layer plasma filaments, mediated by resonant high harmonic fast wave scattering	7
The DESC stellarator code suite. Part 1. Quick and accurate equilibria computations	7
Dependence of field-reversed configuration formation in collisional merging experiments on the mirror magnetic field strength	7
Pressure anisotropy and viscous heating in weakly collisional plasma turbulence	7
The collisional particle-in-cell method for the Vlasov–Maxwell–Landau equations	7
A numerical study of gravity-driven instability in strongly coupled dusty plasma. Part 3. Homo-interaction between a pair of rising/falling bubbles/droplets	7
Inverse cascade from helical and non-helical decaying columnar magnetic fields	7
Application of quadruple Beltrami state on Saturnian dusty plasma	7
Helical magnetic mirror performance at up- and downstream directions of the axial force	7
On the construction of general large-amplitude spherically polarised Alfvén waves	7
Gyrokinetic simulations of magnetohydrodynamic modes in stellarator plasmas	7
Overview of neutral beam injectors for plasma heating and diagnostics developed at Budker INP	7
Collisionless tearing instability in a relativistic pair plasma with a power-law distribution function	7
Nonlinear dynamics in dusty plasmas subjected to photo-discharging	7
Resonant excitation of single Kelvin–Helmholtz high-order waves in a magnetized electron fluid vortex	7
The residual flow in well-optimized stellarators	7
Beam current from downramp injection in electron-driven plasma wakefields	7
ARC physics basis–magnetohydrodynamics	7
Extending near-axis equilibria in $\mathtt {DESC}$	7
Experimental issues of energy balance in open magnetic trap	7
MHD turbulence: a biased review	7
Direct construction of stellarator-symmetric quasi-isodynamic magnetic configurations	7
Towards ion stopping power experiments with the laser-driven LIGHT beamline	7
Collisionless zonal-flow dynamics in quasisymmetric stellarators	7
Experimental study of argon gas breakdown with symmetric and asymmetric electrode configurations	6
Hall magnetohydrodynamics in a relativistically strong mean magnetic field	6
A single-field-period quasi-isodynamic stellarator	6
Hosking integral in non-helical Hall cascade	6
Ultrafast dynamics of a spin-polarized electron plasma with magnetic ions	6
Lane formation in 3D driven pair-ion plasmas: I Parallel External Forcing	6
Transient versus steady-state solutions: a qualitative study	6
Effects of guard and boom on needle Langmuir probes studied with particle-in-cell simulations	6
Multi-cell trap developments towards the accumulation and confinement of large quantities of positrons	6
Intermittency assessed through a model of kurtosis–skewness relation in MHD in fast dynamo regimes	6
GPU-MPI parallelisation for QuickPIC, a three-dimensional quasi-static particle-in-cell algorithm	6

Outside and inside a magnetic island: different perspectives to describe the same observables	6
Interpretation of high-harmonic fast-wave propagation in the scrape-off layer of NSTX-U as a geometrically bounded-waveguide mode	6
A comprehensive exploration of quasisymmetric stellarators and their coil sets	6
Chaotic and integrable magnetic fields in one-dimensional hybrid Vlasov–Maxwell equilibria	6
Deciphering the physical basis of the intermediate-scale instability	6
An analytical form of the dispersion function for local linear gyrokinetics in a curved magnetic field	6
Recent results on high-β plasma confinement studies in the Gas Dynamic Trap	6
Guiding centre motion for particles in a ponderomotive magnetostatic end plug	6
Imposing quasineutrality on electrostatic plasmas via the Dirac theory of constraints	6
Application scope of the reductive perturbation method to derive the KdV equation and CKdV equation in dusty plasma	6
Calculation of collisionless pitch-angle scattering of runaway electrons with synchrotron radiation via high-order guiding-centre equation	6
The Velikhov-ionisation instability revisited: a new opportunity for MHD energy conversion?	6
The Infinity Two fusion pilot plant baseline plasma physics design	6
Particle-in-cell simulations of the tearing instability for relativistic pair plasmas	6
Guiding-centre orbit-following simulations of charge exchange loss of NBI ions with the finite Larmor radius effect	6
Fast correlation heating in moderately coupled electron–ion plasmas	6
Generation of energetic electrons by an electron cyclotron wave through stochastic heating in a spherical tokamak	6
Turbulence mitigation in maximum-J stellarators with electron-density gradient – ERRATUM	6
Modelling of the electron cyclotron emission burst from a laboratory tokamak plasma with loss-cone maser instability	6
Machine learning surrogates for ion energy–angle distributions in thermal and RF plasma sheaths	6
Microphysically modified magnetosonic modes in collisionless, high-β plasmas	6
Overview of GOL-NB experiments in 2025	6
Annihilation-gamma-based diagnostic techniques for magnetically confined electron–positron pair plasma	6
The hot-electron closure of the moment-based gyrokinetic plasma model	5
Vertical displacement oscillatory modes in tokamak plasmas	5
Energetic bounds on gyrokinetic instabilities. Part 4. Bounce-averaged electrons	5
In search of a data-driven symbolic multi-fluid ten-moment model closure	5
Twisted magnetar magnetospheres: a class of semi-analytical force-free non-rotating solutions	5
Theory of striped dynamic spectra of the Crab pulsar high-frequency interpulse	5
Transfer learning as a method to reproduce high-fidelity non-local thermodynamic equilibrium opacities in simulations	5
Plasma formation with regulated electric potential distribution in SMOLA helical mirror device	5
Reduced modelling of scrape-off losses of runaway electrons during tokamak disruptions	5
Energetic bounds on gyrokinetic instabilities. Part 5. Contrasting optimal and normal modes over the geometric landscape	5
Leaky modes in coronal magnetic flux tubes revisited	5
Is there an exact magnetic moment for charged particle motion in a time-dependent, homogeneous magnetic field?	5
Reinterpreting radio frequency heating and current drive theory in a tokamak	5
Quasilinear drift kinetic theory of alpha particle transport by neoclassical tearing modes	5
Confinement performance predictions for a high field axisymmetric tandem mirror – CORRIGENDUM	5
Axisymmetric dynamos sustained by a modified Ohm’s law in a toroidal volume	5
Equilibriumβ-limits dependence on bootstrap current in classical stellarators	5
The effects of finite electron inertia on helicity-barrier-mediated turbulence	5
Temperature inversion in a confined plasma atmosphere: coarse-grained effect of temperature fluctuations at its base	5
Dynamics of a collisional magnetized plasma sheath with non-thermal electrons, multi-component positive ions and charged dust: a fluid model analysis	5
Spatial distribution of self-seeded air lasers induced by the femtosecond laser filament plasma	5
Quasi-linear theory of perpendicular ion heating by critically balanced turbulence	5
Space–time structure of weak magnetohydrodynamic turbulence	5
The zonal-flow residual does not tend to zero in the limit of small mirror ratio	5
Extended envelope nonlinear waves in dusty plasma chain	5
Detecting shearless phase-space transport barriers in global gyrokinetic turbulence simulations with test particle map models	5
Data-driven model discovery for plasma turbulence modelling	5
The fundamental parameters of astrophysical plasma turbulence and its dissipation: non-relativistic limit	5
A small tail bump on a Maxwellian in the limit of vanishing collisions for a finite monochromatic wave	5
Influence of finite ion Larmor radius on the dynamics of weakly collisional plasma jets colliding in a magnetic arch	5
Optimised stellarators with a positive radial electric field	5
Intermittent, reflection-driven, strong imbalanced MHD turbulence	5
Beam focusing and consequences for Doppler backscattering measurements	5
Proton and helium ions acceleration in near-critical density gas targets by short-pulse Ti:Sa PW-class laser	5
Density-constrained ground states of collisionless plasmas	5
Quadruple Langmuir probe characterization of different fuel gases in a plasma deflagration accelerator	5
Eulerian and Lagrangian electron energisation during magnetic reconnection	5
A new reductive perturbation formalism for ion acoustic cnoidal waves	4
Finite orbit width effects in large aspect ratio stellarators	4
Development of a field-reversed configuration device using radio frequency antennas to produce E × B for current-drive	4
Improved numerical simulation model for nuclear reaction rate calculations in high-speed plasma collisions	4
Lagrangian features of turbulent transport in tokamak plasmas: the Cyclone Base Case	4
A parallel-kinetic-perpendicular-moment model for magnetised plasmas	4
Towards fast and accurate predictions of radio frequency power deposition and current profile via data-driven modelling: applications to lower hybrid current drive	4
Transverse magnetic field effects on the high-voltage pulsed discharge plasma in helium	4
The DESC stellarator code suite. Part 2. Perturbation and continuation methods	4
Impact of dynamics, entanglement and Markovian noise on the fidelity of few-qubit digital quantum simulation	4
Fast ion generation by combined RF-NBI heating in W7-X	4
The effect of shear flow on the resistive tearing instability	4
Particle transport through localized interactions with sharp magnetic field bends in MHD turbulence	4
Progress of open systems at Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics	4
Quasilinear theory for inhomogeneous plasma	4
Density jump as a function of the field for parallel relativistic collisionless shocks	4
Cyclotron breaking: a mechanism for parallel ion cyclotron waves to heat the fast solar wind	4
Self-organization in the avalanche, quench and dissipation of a molecular ultracold plasma	4
Tessellation-based analysis of impurity clustering in the edge plasma of tokamaks	4
Multimode theory of electron hole transverse instability	4
Coupling multi-fluid dynamics equipped with Landau closures to the particle-in-cell method	4
Magnetic fields with general omnigenity	4
Shearless bifurcations in particle transport for reversed-shear tokamaks	4
Metastability of stratified magnetohydrostatic equilibria and their relaxation	4
Database-wide hazard modelling of the onset of DIII-D tearing modes with field features	4
Reduction of electrostatic turbulence in a quasi-helically symmetric stellarator via critical gradient optimization	4
Development of the ambipolar electric field in a compressed current sheet and the impact on magnetic reconnection	4
Mapping the space of quasisymmetric stellarators using optimized near-axis expansion	4
Nonlinear interaction of Alfvénic instabilities and turbulence via the modification of the equilibrium profiles	4
A comparison of low-n Mercier unstable Wendelstein stellarators and quasi-interchange modes in tokamaks	4
Non-trace full-F gyro-fluid interchange impurity advection	4
Role of the edge electric field in the resonant mode-particle interactions and the formation of transport barriers in toroidal plasmas	4
Impact of a free normal velocity boundary on the modelling of external MHD modes	4
Firewall effect on electron acceleration by R-waves and parallel electric fields	4
Electromagnetic oscillations and anomalous ion scattering in the helically symmetric multiple-mirror trap	4