Physics of Plasmas

Papers
(The median citation count of Physics of Plasmas is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Dynamics and manipulation of ultrashort laser pulses via plasma shutter71
Application of mesh refinement to relativistic magnetic reconnection70
Dynamics of implosion, bounce, and re-implosion of a shell directly driven by a time-shaped laser pulse65
Bow shock formation in a dusty plasma flowing around an obstacle under microgravity61
Bayesian optimization of laser wakefield acceleration in the self-modulated regime (SM-LWFA) aiming to produce molybdenum-99 via photonuclear reactions48
Particle swarm optimization of 1D isochoric compression designs for fast ignition48
Reliable charge measurement from configurational temperature analysis42
Hydrodynamic expansion and near-infrared absorption of x-ray heated aluminum plasmas41
Comparative study of dielectric barrier discharge characteristics of methane-air mixed He/Ar41
Acceleration rate enhancement by negative plasma density gradient in multi-bunch driven plasma wakefield accelerator40
Ion cyclotron range of frequencies plasma production and heating in the large helical device40
Merging dynamics of unidirectional current carrying filamentary plasma blobs in the edge region of a tokamak38
Influence of pressure on spectral broadening of femtosecond laser pulses in air37
Dust dynamics in the lunar dusty plasmas: Effects of magnetic fields and dust charge variations35
Liner implosion experiments driven by a dynamic screw pinch35
A magnetically insulated coaxial vacuum diode providing a reduced energy spread in the leading edge of a high-current electron beam34
Optical emission spectroscopy and imaging of low-pressure N2 plasmas generated by intense fast-pulsed electron beams33
Interaction of upper hybrid waves with dust-ion-magnetoacoustic waves and stable two-dimensional solitons in dusty plasmas32
Performance characterization and comparison of two- and tri-electrode configurations in a DBD plasma channel thruster utilizing volumetric and surface discharge mechanisms31
Publisher's Note: “High brightness betatron x-ray source driven by chirped laser pulses” [Phys. Plasmas 31, 103105 (2024)]29
Edge-localized mode mitigation enabled by active control of pedestal density gradient with new EAST tokamak divertor29
KrF exciplexes formation in low temperature plasmas created in various gas mixtures29
Comparison of conductivity functions for effective skin depth in electrodynamic structures with roughness28
Temporal evolution of toroidal flow during collisional merging of field-reversed configurations28
Hybrid proton acceleration with an ultra-intense laser of low contrast28
Burn propagation in magnetized high-yield inertial fusion28
Arguments for the physical nature of the triggered ion-acoustic waves observed on the Parker Solar Probe27
Mechanisms behind impurity spreading in a channeled, long-leg divertor configuration27
Revisit of electron temperature effect on stimulated Brillouin scattering in homogenous plasma26
Beam instability in a plasma microwave amplifier with an absorber26
A compact phase-locked relativistic extended interactions oscillator with low seed injection power25
Reviewer acknowledgment for 202425
Efficient confinement and acceleration of relativistic electron bunch in interaction with higher modes of Hermite–Gaussian laser beam24
Statistical theory of a near-forward stimulated Brillouin scattering driven by a spatially and temporally smoothed laser beam24
Design of an adjustable low-temperature linear microwave plasma source for atmospheric pressure applications23
Predictive nonlinear MHD simulations of quiescent H-mode plasma in the HL-3 tokamak23
Examining astrophysical gas cloud collapse using an optical depth-scaled, x-ray-irradiated, carbon-foam sphere23
Terahertz radiation generation based on wiggler magnetic field23
Ideal plasma response to externally applied perturbations in sheared stellarators23
Response to “Comment on ‘Modification of Lie's transform perturbation theory for charged particle motion in a magnetic field’” [Phys. Plasmas 30, 104701 (2023)]22
Temperature effects in plasma-based positron acceleration schemes using electron filaments22
Temporal evolution of self-organized spiral patterns formed in a liquid-electrode discharge sustained in atmospheric pressure air22
Mitigation of deceleration-phase Rayleigh–Taylor instability growth in inertial confinement fusion implosions22
Toward digital design at the exascale: An overview of project ICECap22
Nonlinear adiabatic electron plasma waves. II. Applications22
Simulation observation of high effectiveness laser plasma wakefield accelerator using plasma telescope configuration21
Investigation of the role of fishbone activity in the formation of internal transport barrier in HL-2A plasma21
Resonant alpha particle loss in stellarators21
Super-radiant backward-wave oscillator with two-period slow-wave structure21
Specular reflections (“glint”) of the inner beams in a gas-filled cylindrical hohlraum21
Methodology for measuring the energy characteristics of two-electrode gas discharge plasma switches in the picosecond range using the reflectometry method21
Models for calculation of the sideways force due to the kink modes in tokamaks21
Regulation of nanosecond pulse breakdown process by vertical magnetic field19
Characterizing the flow and turbulence structure near the last closed flux surface in L-mode plasmas of ASDEX Upgrade19
Effects of the energetic particles on the anomalous transport driven by the ion temperature gradient instability19
Tokamak plasma equilibrium with relativistic runaway electrons19
Resonant three-wave interactions with linear source/sink terms: Exploring the parameter space19
Characterization of similar Marshak waves observed at the LMJ18
Investigating instabilities in magnetized low-pressure capacitively coupled RF plasma using particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations18
Chapman–Enskog derivation of multicomponent Navier–Stokes equations18
Exploring relaxation dynamics in warm dense plasmas by tailoring non-thermal electron distributions with a free electron laser18
Shear-flow driven ion-acoustic instability in a non-thermal magnetoplasma18
Electron–N2 interactions in RF E × B fields18
Integrated modeling of anisotropic neutron yields of classical and spherical tokamaks18
ATEQ: Adaptive toroidal equilibrium code18
Observation of pedestal quasi-coherent mode in Type-I ELMy H-mode of HL-2A tokamak17
Self-consistent formation and steady-state characterization of trapped high-energy electron clouds in the presence of a neutral gas background17
Experimental demonstration of transition from J × B heating to stochastic heating in ultrashort high intensity laser foil interaction17
Backward stimulated Brillouin scattering spatial gain with polarization, spatial, and temporal beam smoothing techniques17
Preface to special issue: Private fusion research: Opportunities and challenges in plasma science17
Determination of the critical contact separation length for DC interruption in a vacuum subject to an external transverse magnetic field17
Influence of quantum particles on self-gravitational magnetic dust acoustic double layers17
Laboratory study of the PFRC-2's initial plasma densification stages17
Elimination of self-oscillation between three cascaded reflectors in an X-band triaxial klystron amplifier17
Identification of electrostatic microinstability maps in quasi-axisymmetric stellarator17
High-frequency radio-wave emission by coherent transition radiation of runaway electrons produced by lightning stepped leaders16
Time delay statistics modeling of megavolt self-triggered pre-ionized switch under nanosecond pulses16
Comment on “ENN's roadmap for proton-boron fusion based on spherical torus” [Phys. Plasmas 31, 062507 (2024)]16
Non-uniformity of the radial electric field for tokamak plasma on the low and the high toroidal magnetic field side16
Integrated control of edge localized modes and divertor flux using mixed toroidal harmonic resonant magnetic perturbations in EAST16
Comparative analysis of dielectric surface discharge characteristics in Gaussian and sinusoidal microwave electric fields16
Response to Comment on “Staged Z-pinch modeling of high and low atomic number liners compressing deuterium targets using parameters of the Z pulsed power facility” [Phys. Plasmas 29, 084702 (2016
Efficient laser-driven proton acceleration from a petawatt contrast-enhanced second harmonic mixed-glass laser system16
Quasiparticle approach to collective quantum dielectric response16
Comprehensive study on discharge characteristics in pulsed dielectric barrier discharges with atmospheric He and CO216
Method to determine the electron–ion temperature relaxation rate from test particle distributions16
Internal rotation of ELM filaments on NSTX16
Frequency chirp effects on stimulated Raman scattering in inhomogeneous plasmas16
Limiting current in a collisional crossed-field gap15
Dephasing and phase-locking: Dual role of radial electric field in edge MHD dynamics of toroidally confined plasmas15
Ultrafast relativistic electron probing of extreme magnetic fields15
Binary phase separation in strongly coupled plasma15
Negative hydrogen ion dynamics inside the plasma volume of a linear device: Estimates from particle-in-cell calculations15
Study of sheath properties in collisional dusty plasma with nonthermal electrons and ionization15
PM4Stell: A prototype permanent magnet stellarator structure15
Rotation of dust particles in an inhomogeneous weak magnetic field in a DC glow discharge15
The probability of escape of the products of charged particles resulting from thermonuclear fusion of advanced fuels in the hotspot15
Using tabulated NLTE data for Hohlraum simulations15
Numerical dissipation induced by the low-pass filtering in nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations15
Beam–plasma dynamics in finite-length, collisionless inhomogeneous systems15
Forces applied to nanoparticles in magnetron discharges and the resulting size segregation15
Erratum: “Mitigation of self-focusing in Thomson scattering experiments” [Phys. Plasmas 26, 103110 (2019)]15
Design, simulation, and construction an air-conditioning system to eliminate any pathogenic microorganisms in the air15
Comments on mechanisms for self-E → H and inverse H → E mode transitions in radio frequency inductively coupled plasmas15
Study of magnetic reconnection at low-β using laser-powered capacitor coils15
Artificial excitation and propagation of ultra-low frequency signals in the polar ionosphere15
Global gyrokinetic simulation of neoclassical ambipolar electric field and its effects on microturbulence in W7-X stellarator15
The role of electron current in high-β plasma equilibria15
Numerical model for linear stimulated Raman scattering in inhomogeneous plasmas14
Simple pair-potentials and pseudo-potentials for warm-dense matter applications14
Experimental methods for laboratory measurements of helium spectral line broadening in white dwarf photospheres14
Effects of different working parameters on the turbulent drag reduction regulated by annular plasma synthetic jet actuators14
X-ray imaging and electron temperature evolution in laser-driven magnetic reconnection experiments at the national ignition facility14
Investigation of spatial distribution of EEPFs and neutral species in nitrogen inductively coupled plasmas by 2D hybrid simulation14
Interaction mechanism of cold atmospheric plasmas and fusion peptides of spike protein in SARS-CoV-2 revealed by reactive molecular dynamics simulation14
Temporal structure of blobs in NSTX14
Development of a high performance MagLIF target platform using high aspect ratio coated liners and low-mix laser preheat14
Gyrokinetic simulations of turbulence and zonal flows driven by steep profile gradients using a delta-f approach with an evolving background Maxwellian14
Publisher's Note: “A new method for solving the linearized 1D Vlasov–Poisson system yielding a new class of solutions” [Phys. Plasmas 31, 052121 (2024)]14
An analytical approach to evaluating magnetic-field closure and topological changes in FRC devices14
Microtearing mode in electron temperature pedestal evolution and collapse of KSTAR H-mode plasmas14
Attenuation characteristics analysis of the THz circularly polarized waves in inhomogeneous fully ionized dusty plasma using FPL model14
Mechanism of generating collisionless shock in magnetized gas plasma driven by laser-ablated target plasma13
Onset of instability with collapse observed in relatively high density and medium beta regions of LHD13
Study on the generation of terahertz waves in collision plasma13
Electron-beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration of photons13
Machine learning on the ignition threshold for inertial confinement fusion13
On the available free energy in drift wave turbulence13
An X-band high-power and high-efficiency coaxial relativistic klystron oscillator with four-gap buncher and three-gap extractor13
Backward fast electrons supported by ionization wave passing through the grid cathode13
Two-plasmon-decay instability in the non-eigenmode regime in laser–plasma interaction13
Enhancement of stimulated Brillouin scattering in multiple resonance regions by two-color light in inhomogeneous flowing plasmas13
Hall MHD waves: A fundamental departure from their MHD counterparts13
Effects of mass diffusion on Rayleigh–Taylor instability under a large gravity13
Excitation of long electrostatic solitary waves in ion beam neutralization process13
Inferring the temperature profile of the radiative shock in the COAX experiment with shock radiography, Dante, and spectral temperature diagnostics13
Combining Rankine–Hugoniot relations, ion dynamics in the shock front, and the cross-shock potential13
Threshold target thickness in high-contrast laser-driven ion acceleration13
Tokamak plasma equilibria with n=1 toroidal asymmetry13
Ionization and neutral gas heating efficiency in radio frequency electrothermal microthrusters: The role of driving frequency12
Simulation of dust grain charging under hypervelocity impact plasma environment12
Larmor radius effect on the control of chaotic transport in tokamaks12
The impact of electron inertia on collisional laser absorption for high energy density plasmas12
Three-dimensional crescent-shaped ion velocity distributions created by magnetic reconnection in the presence of a guide field12
Use of current-potential patches to obtain fundamental improvements to the coils of magnetic fusion devices12
Effects of electron viscosity on resonant layer responses to non-axisymmetric magnetic perturbations12
Parasitic modulation effect caused by dynamic plasma in low frequency12
Influence of cusp-shaped magnetic fields on plasma density and thrust in an RF plasma thruster with a magnetic nozzle12
Proton rings from late-forming ballistic sheath fields12
Electron resonant interaction with whistler-mode waves around the Earth's bow shock I: The probabilistic approach12
Similarity laws for two-dimensional simulations of low-pressure capacitively coupled radio-frequency discharges12
Lattice Boltzmann method for warm fluid simulations of plasma wakefield acceleration12
Experimental study on influence of temperature on breakdown in a waveguide cavity12
Single-mode wave decay12
Stabilization of beam heated plasmas by beam modulation12
Theoretical research on a large beam tunnel, coalesced-mode broadband traveling wave tube12
Quasi-longitudinal propagation of nonlinear whistlers with steep electrostatic fluctuations12
Eigenmode twist by energy flux during fast-ion driven instabilities12
Study of soft X-ray radiation of plasma produced by interaction of laser radiation with copper targets at the “Kanal-2” facility12
A numerical approach to the calculation of the Alfvén continuum in the presence of magnetic islands12
Small-signal model for inhomogeneous helix traveling-wave tubes using transfer matrices12
MHD-induced beta limits in the Large Helical Device12
Electron energy gain due to a laser frequency modulation experienced by electron during betatron motion12
Discharge mode transition in partially magnetized E × B Penning discharge12
Numerical implications of including drifts in SOLPS-ITER simulations of EAST12
Curious cross-field transport effects in multi-ion, magnetized plasma12
Investigation of RF behavior in a MW-level, frequency-multiplying, W-Band gyroklystron amplifier for linear accelerator applications12
The field theory of collective Cherenkov radiation associated with electron beams12
Yield degradation mechanisms for two-shock capsules evaluated through simulations12
Theory and simulation of the electrothermal instability in pulsed power electrode plasmas12
Different effects of suprathermal electrons and ions on drift instabilities in non-uniform plasmas12
Long filamentary discharge produced in helium spiral vortex12
Experimental methods to test photoionized plasma models in emission11
Effects of disorder on electron heating in ultracold plasmas11
Study of demixing in C–F plasma produced in a capillary discharge11
DIII-D's role as a national user facility in enabling the commercialization of fusion energy11
Modeling results on the dust charge distribution in a plasma afterglow11
Development of five-moment two-fluid modeling for Z-pinch physics11
Ion temperature gradient mode mitigation by energetic particles, mediated by forced-driven zonal flows11
Optimization of 2.45 GHz microwave coupling depending on axial magnetic field profiles and impedance transformer in electron cyclotron resonance ion source11
Equations and improved coefficients for parallel transport in multicomponent collisional plasmas: Method and application for tokamak modeling11
Effect of grounding and isolation of the target on the emissive properties of laser-produced plasma11
Creating and studying a scaled interplanetary coronal mass ejection11
Equation of state of the relativistic electron–positron–photon plasma at arbitrary temperature and degeneracy11
Observation of laser ablation of silicon as a function of pulse length at constant fluence via time-resolved x-ray spectroscopy11
Quasi-monoenergetic ion acceleration and neutron generation from laser-driven transverse collisionless shocks11
Gaseous pre-lattice assisted supercontinuum enhancement of femtosecond laser filamentation11
Ion acceleration from the interaction of ultrahigh-intensity laser pulses with near-critical density, nonuniform gas targets11
Limiting current on periodic electron sheets in a planar diode11
Instability of motion of relativistic charged particles in non-uniform stationary electromagnetic fields11
Stellarator optimization for good magnetic surfaces at the same time as quasisymmetry11
High-frequency dissipative MHD waves in straight magnetic cylindrical plasma: Coronal loops heating application11
Parallel propagating modes: A transition from electromagnetic proton cyclotron to electron firehose instability11
SOLPS-ITER validation with TCV L-mode discharges11
Computational study of cathode plasma dynamics in high-power electron beam diodes by particle-in-cell simulations11
Dynamic control of the spatial frequency content of an intense laser via intra-beam energy transfer11
Density drop at the divertor target in the prototype material plasma exposure eXperiment (Proto-MPEX)11
Full-f gyrokinetic simulations of hydrogen isotope mixing in tokamak plasmas11
Sheath expansion effect of double flush mounted probe in weakly ionized plasma11
Regarding the extension of metaplectic geometrical optics to modeling evanescent waves in ray-tracing codes11
Measurements of improved stability to achieve higher fuel compression in ICF11
A global model and two-dimensional simulation study of a low-pressure inductively coupled CF4 plasma considering non-Maxwellian EEDF11
Terahertz super-radiance from picosecond electron bunches moving through a micro-undulator11
Absolute N-atom density measurement in an Ar/N2 micro-hollow cathode discharge jet by means of ns-two-photon absorption laser-induced fluorescence11
Numerical investigation of negative polarity electrical explosion of aluminum wire in vacuum11
Enhanced energy deposition of laser-produced proton beams in high-density plasmas due to beam density self-steepening11
Neoclassical transport of impurities in tokamaks with non-axisymmetric perturbations11
Direct-drive ICF target with compound ablator containing a low-density component11
Volumetric recombination in EMC3-EIRENE: Implementation and first application to the pre-fusion power operation phase in ITER10
Measuring magnetic flux suppression in high-power laser–plasma interactions10
Direct measurement of the wakefield excited by a high-power microwave pulse in plasma10
Transient optical properties change and dense plasma dynamics during water breakdown induced by ultrashort laser pulses10
Critical temperature for volume ignition of deuterium–tritium fuel in inertial confinement fusion: Effects of hydrodynamic instabilities10
Investigation of MHD instabilities and related dynamic interactions during the major disruption in the HL-2A tokamak10
Erratum: “On virial analysis at low aspect ratio” [Phys. Plasmas 23, 072508 (2016)]10
Core performance predictions in projected SPARC first-campaign plasmas with nonlinear CGYRO10
Fermi acceleration in relativistic collisionless plasma shocks correlates with anisotropic energy gains10
Using neutrons and x rays to measure plasma conditions in a solid sphere of deuterated polyethylene compressed to densities of 35 g/cc at temperatures of 2 keV and pressures of 40 Gbar10
Generalized Boozer coordinates: A natural coordinate system for quasisymmetry10
Generation of bright collimated vortex γ -ray via laser driven cone-fan target10
Characterization of DC glow discharge plasma in co-axial electrode geometry system by nonlinear dynamical analysis tools10
Exploration of cross-beam energy transfer mitigation constraints for designing an ignition-scale direct-drive inertial confinement fusion driver10
Influence of magnetic angle on the E × B drift in a magnetic presheath10
Enhancing power capacity and performance of wide-drift-channel transit-time oscillators for long-pulse high-power microwave generation10
Investigation of the directional Faraday cup and improvement of the comparison between direct and indirect thrust measurements of a magnetic nozzle ECR thruster10
General electron conductance expression of the multi-gap extended interaction cavity10
Space-resolved electron density and temperature evaluation by x-ray pinhole camera method in an ECR plasma10
Required toroidal confinement for fusion and omnigeneity10
Trapping and actively transporting single particles of arbitrary properties in low-pressure rf plasmas with and without a magnetic field10
On the influence of plasma turbulence on collective Thomson scattering measurements10
Data-driven linear time advance operators for the acceleration of plasma physics simulation10
Particle dynamics in a turbulent electric field10
0.22-THz extended interaction klystron based on orthogonal interconnection structure10
Effect of inhomogeneous magnetic field on blue core in Ar helicon plasma10
Surface dielectric barrier discharge with trenches in insulating material10
1D model of tokamak scrape-off layer and divertor plasmas: Dimensionless parameters and the results of numerical simulations10
Finite gyroradius multidimensional electron hole equilibria10
Divergence of the energy-losing rate of charged particles in plasmas10
Direct stellarator coil optimization for nested magnetic surfaces with precise quasi-symmetry10
Slipping instability of an inhomogeneous relativistic electron beam10
Experimental observations of multiple modes of filamentary structures in the magnetized dusty plasma experiment (MDPX) device10
Diagnostics of plasma–liquids systems: Challenges and their mitigation10
Investigation on the arc root characteristics of vacuum arc between the iron-core cup-shaped transverse magnetic field contacts10
Density profile transition and high-energy electron transport in a magnetically expanding radio frequency plasma10
Reduced bandwidth Compton photons from a laser-plasma accelerator using tailored plasma channels10
Effects of Kelvin–Helmholtz instability on the material mixing in the double-cone ignition10
Quasi-regular formation of rogue waves in gyrotrons due to periodic injection of electron beams10
Near-ideal energy modulator for tunable THz pulse generation using sectioned hollow channel plasma system10
Nonlinear theory of the modulational instability at the ion–ion hybrid frequency and collapse of ion–ion hybrid waves in two-ion plasmas10
Impact of flow-induced beam deflection on beam propagation in ignition scale hohlraums10
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