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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Effects of deuterium-tritium mix on linear growth rates of the magnetoacoustic cyclotron instability in fusion plasmas92
Laser measurements of static and dynamic dipole polarizability for 11 metal atoms using fast exploding wires in vacuum and integrated-phase technique82
Erratum: “Exploring ultra-high-intensity wakefields in carbon nanotube arrays: An effective plasma-density approach” [Phys. Plasmas 30, 033105 (2023)]69
Cross-beam energy transfer in conditions relevant to direct-drive implosions on OMEGA61
The sound speed of the relativistic free electron gas52
Investigation of chemical kinetics in plasma-assisted ammonia conversion processes49
Influences of spatial structure of plasma shock wave on electromagnetic wave propagation characteristics49
Constraints of radiation loss on thermonuclear reactor designs based on burning p–11B in a dense plasma focus48
Data-driven linear time advance operators for the acceleration of plasma physics simulation44
What drives chorus wave frequency chirping?42
Representation learning algorithms for inferring machine independent latent features in pedestals in JET and AUG38
Periodic Korteweg–de Vries soliton potentials generate quasisymmetric magnetic field strength in a finite plasma-β equilibrium38
A Grad-Shafranov model for compact quasisymmetric stellarators36
Models for calculation of the sideways force due to the kink modes in tokamaks36
Kinetic theory of the cathode sheath in low-voltage beam discharges35
Edge plasma relaxations due to diamagnetic stabilization34
Extended bounce-kinetic model for trapped electron mode turbulence33
Chapman–Enskog derivation of multicomponent Navier–Stokes equations33
Modeling results on the dust charge distribution in a plasma afterglow32
Internal rotation of ELM filaments on NSTX32
The contribution of femtosecond laser filaments to positive and negative breakdown discharge in a long air gap32
Kinetic Alfvén waves in the overlap region between the plasmasphere and ring current31
Plasma dynamics of an Al plasma in AlTi or AlAu mixtures heated by the PICO2000 ultra-intense laser pulse31
Stability of ultra-intense laser pulse propagation in a transversely perturbed plasma channel31
Theory of ion holes in plasmas with flat-topped electron distributions30
Marginal stability of whistler-mode waves in plasma with multiple electron populations30
Effects of different working parameters on the turbulent drag reduction regulated by annular plasma synthetic jet actuators30
Three-dimensional crescent-shaped ion velocity distributions created by magnetic reconnection in the presence of a guide field29
Plasma bullet splitting behavior of a positive streamer initiated in an atmospheric pressure argon plasma jet29
Similarity for downscaled kinetic simulations of electrostatic plasmas: Reconciling the large system size with small Debye length28
Reliable charge measurement from configurational temperature analysis28
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)]28
KrF exciplexes formation in low temperature plasmas created in various gas mixtures27
Integrated modeling of anisotropic neutron yields of classical and spherical tokamaks27
Dynamics and manipulation of ultrashort laser pulses via plasma shutter27
Effects of electron viscosity on resonant layer responses to non-axisymmetric magnetic perturbations26
Ion acceleration from the interaction of ultrahigh-intensity laser pulses with near-critical density, nonuniform gas targets26
Single-mode wave decay26
Density drop at the divertor target in the prototype material plasma exposure eXperiment (Proto-MPEX)25
Shear-flow driven ion-acoustic instability in a non-thermal magnetoplasma25
Role of initial conditions in plasma-current coupling of gas-puff Z-pinches25
Nonlinear saturation of whistler modes driven by runaway electrons25
Reviewer acknowledgment for 202425
Methodology for measuring the energy characteristics of two-electrode gas discharge plasma switches in the picosecond range using the reflectometry method24
Gyrokinetic simulations of turbulence and zonal flows driven by steep profile gradients using a delta-f approach with an evolving background Maxwellian24
Effect of triangularity on ion-temperature-gradient-driven turbulence24
A reduced nonlinear model of synergy between wave-particle and wave-wave interactions24
Characterization of self-magnetic pinch (SMP) radiographic diode performance on RITS-6 at Sandia National Laboratories. I. Diode dynamics, DC heating to extend radiation pulse24
The singlet S-wave resonances of He atom in dense quantum plasmas24
Simulations of non-integer upconversion in resonant six-wave scattering23
Theory and simulation of the electrothermal instability in pulsed power electrode plasmas23
Investigation of MHD instabilities and related dynamic interactions during the major disruption in the HL-2A tokamak23
A global model and two-dimensional simulation study of a low-pressure inductively coupled CF4 plasma considering non-Maxwellian EEDF23
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
A computationally efficient fluid model for atmospheric pressure plasma jet simulation using a spherical charge approximation22
Long filamentary discharge produced in helium spiral vortex22
Study on Townsend first ionization coefficient in a streamer filament of the pulsed electric discharge in water21
Non-uniformity of the radial electric field for tokamak plasma on the low and the high toroidal magnetic field side21
Method to determine the electron–ion temperature relaxation rate from test particle distributions21
Self-consistent formation and steady-state characterization of trapped high-energy electron clouds in the presence of a neutral gas background21
Theory and simulations of field strengths in magnetosonic shock waves in finite beta plasmas21
Numerical study of δ-function current sheets arising from resonant magnetic perturbations21
Effect of overlapping laser beams and density scale length in laser-plasma instability experiments on OMEGA EP21
Influence of reflections on mode-competition processes in a high-power multimode gyrotron21
Linear stability of equilibria with magnetic island chains according to a reduced four-field model and to Hall incompressible magnetohydrodynamics21
Enhanced proton–boron fusion yield with advanced target geometries under direct laser illumination20
Simulation study of coupled two-stream and current filamentation instability excited by accelerator electron beams in plasmas20
Platform for probing radiation transport properties of hydrogen at conditions found in the deep interiors of red dwarfs20
Experimental observations of detached bow shock formation in the interaction of a laser-produced plasma with a magnetized obstacle20
Understanding and controlling capsule symmetry in near vacuum hohlraums at the National Ignition Facility20
Effect of a magnetic field on plasma arcs at a liquid–air interface20
The dynamics, mixing, and thermonuclear burn of compressed foams with varied gas fills20
Effects of Kelvin–Helmholtz instability on the material mixing in the double-cone ignition20
Axisymmetric gyrokinetic simulation of ASDEX-Upgrade scrape-off layer using a conservative implicit BGK collision operator20
Observation of pedestal quasi-coherent mode in Type-I ELMy H-mode of HL-2A tokamak19
Development of a high performance MagLIF target platform using high aspect ratio coated liners and low-mix laser preheat19
Using tabulated NLTE data for Hohlraum simulations19
Bayesian optimization of laser wakefield acceleration in the self-modulated regime (SM-LWFA) aiming to produce molybdenum-99 via photonuclear reactions19
Nonlinear study of transition modes in the chaotic time series obtained in different negative differential resistance regimes19
Expansion dynamics of femtosecond laser-induced plasmas: Influence of thermophysical plasma properties19
Experimental study on influence of temperature on breakdown in a waveguide cavity19
Generation of bright collimated vortex γ -ray via laser driven cone-fan target19
Threshold target thickness in high-contrast laser-driven ion acceleration19
Influence of external electromagnetic irradiation on formation and characteristics of a beam–plasma microwave discharge without external magnetic field: Polarization of the optical emission from such 19
The field theory of collective Cherenkov radiation associated with electron beams19
Pre-plasma shaping via picosecond laser contrast: A hybrid simulation study of proton acceleration in TNSA19
Application of mesh refinement to relativistic magnetic reconnection18
Binary phase separation in strongly coupled plasma18
Mass spectrometry of clustered flows during gas ionization by low-temperature plasma in the diffuser part of the nozzle18
Augmenting machine learning of Grad–Shafranov equilibrium reconstruction with Green's functions18
Study on the generation of terahertz waves in collision plasma18
Observation of laser ablation of silicon as a function of pulse length at constant fluence via time-resolved x-ray spectroscopy18
Onset of instability with collapse observed in relatively high density and medium beta regions of LHD18
Hydrodynamic instabilities in a highly radiative environment18
Optimization of the compact stellarator with simple coils at finite beta18
Characterization of sub-picosecond laser-produced fast electrons by modeling angularly resolved bremsstrahlung measurements with 3D hybrid particle-in-cell code17
Influence of different kinetic heating mechanisms on the dynamics of a trapped Brownian particle in a complex plasma17
Plasma dynamics and collisional magnetic presheath structure in unmagnetized divertor plasma in fusion devices17
Causal analysis among azimuthal Fourier modes in linear plasma based on multivariate time series models17
Investigation of collision effects on ion dynamics in the presheath and sheath of weakly collisional and magnetized hydrogen plasmas17
Long-wavelength electromagnetic waves of surface type in circular metal waveguides partially filled by plasma in presence of an axial static magnetic field17
Erratum: “Correlation between the relative blob fraction and plasma parameters in NSTX” [Phys. Plasmas 29, 012505 (2022)]17
Highly efficient superradiant oscillator with front-extraction output in TE11 mode operating at low magnetic field17
Collisional space-charge-limited current with monoenergetic velocity: From Child–Langmuir to Mott–Gurney17
Particle dynamics in dusty plasma: Classical tunneling17
Laboratory study of Kelvin–Helmholtz instability at ion kinetic scales17
Nonlinear excitation of geodesic acoustic mode by drift waves in anisotropic tokamak plasmas with toroidal rotation17
Head-on collision of large-scale high density plasmas jets: A first-principle kinetic simulation approach17
Numerical study of the suppression of magnetic reconnection onset with injected plasma17
Potential development and electron energy confinement in an expanding magnetic field divertor geometry17
A theoretical explanation of the density of backstreaming ion beams at oblique collisionless shocks16
Resonant excitation of whistler wave via Cherenkov emission by sweeping radio frequency heated hot spot across the equatorial electrojet16
A foreword to the special issue: Proceedings of PLASMA 2023—International Conference on Research and Applications of Plasmas16
Charged-particle transport in high energy density plasmas16
Experimental studies of a novel one-dimensional plasma window16
Generation of the high power by a coaxial dielectric barrier discharge with a perforated electrode in atmospheric pressure air16
Unveiling non-flat profiles within magnetic islands in tokamaks16
Non-ideal MHD growth of current interchange tearing modes at plasma edge and response to externally-imposed flow16
Gyrokinetic simulation of isotope effect on zonal flow response in tokamaks16
Confinement of intense proton beams by an applied axial magnetic field in large-scale plasma16
Electron kinetics near the minimum of Paschen's curves of pulsed breakdown16
On the collisional damping of plasma velocity space instabilities16
Magnetic field evolution and reconnection in low resistivity plasmas16
Anomalous resistivity and electron heating by lower hybrid drift waves inside reconnecting current sheets16
Some aspects of the plasma potential in 3D simulation of ECRIS operation16
Design and analysis of dudded fuel experiments at the National Ignition Facility15
Intricate structure of the plasma Rayleigh–Taylor instability in shock tubes15
Parametrization of coefficients for sub-grid modeling of pitch-angle diffusion in global magnetospheric hybrid-Vlasov simulations15
Linear ion-scale microstability analysis of high and low-collisionality NSTX discharges and NSTX-U projections15
KdV equation for kinetic Alfvén waves and ionospheric solitons15
High-frequency leaky standing sausage and kink mode waves in magnetic slab15
High-resolution emission spectroscopy of W I lines: Comparing near-threshold sputtering of mono- and polycrystalline tungsten by Ar ions15
Drift waves and ion temperature gradient instabilities in the large linear device SPEKTRE15
Identification of stimulated Raman side scattering in near-spherical coronal plasmas on OMEGA EP15
An experimental study of the existence regions and non-linear interactions of drift wave and Kelvin–Helmholtz instabilities in a linear magnetized plasma15
Kinetic theory of nonrelativistic electron beam–inhomogeneous plasma system instability15
Staged Z-pinch radiation-hydrodynamic simulations on a 20-MA driver15
General kinetic ion-induced electron emission model for metallic walls applied to biased Z-pinch electrodes15
Quantum edge plasmon excitations and electron spill-out effect15
StyleGAN as an AI deconvolution operator for large eddy simulations of turbulent plasma equations in BOUT++15
Reactive molecular dynamics simulations on interaction mechanisms of cold atmospheric plasmas and peptides15
Electron energization and thermal to non-thermal energy partition during earth's magnetotail reconnection15
Study of radiative shocks using 2D interferometry and XUV spectroscopy15
Experimental demonstration of interferometric discharge structure identification of atmospheric millimeter-wave discharge at subcritical conditions using 28 GHz gyrotron15
Correlation between gamma photon emission and magnetic islands in laser-driven plasma channel15
Emulation techniques for scenario and classical control design of tokamak plasmas14
Response to “Comment on ‘Dispersion relation for the dust ionization and dust acoustic waves in the gas discharge complex plasma’” [Phys. Plasmas 29, 114701 (2022)]14
Calculation of tearing mode stability in an inverse aspect-ratio expanded tokamak plasma equilibrium14
Excitation of ion acoustic collisionless shock by a moving obstacle14
Statistical analysis of high-frequency whistler waves at Earth's bow shock: Further support for stochastic shock drift acceleration14
Nonlinear evolution, propagation, electron-trapping, and damping effects of ion-acoustic solitons using fully kinetic PIC simulations14
Two-stream instability with a growth rate insensitive to collisions in a dissipative plasma jet14
Self-generated magnetic field in ablative Rayleigh–Taylor instability14
ICF target optimization using generative AI14
Matter transport as fundamental property of acoustic solitons in plasma14
Self-consistent calculations of the electric charge, ion drag force, and the drift velocity of spherical grains using Langevin dynamics and comparisons against canonical experiments14
Verification of a fully kinetic ion model for electromagnetic simulations of high-frequency waves in toroidal geometry14
Neural networks as a lossy compression and restart/recovery strategy for high-dimensional plasma simulations14
N-body plasma simulation of classical and Bohm diffusion employing Kepler's analytical solutions14
The optimized mathematical treatment on the correct cutoff for integrals with the Rutherford scattering cross section14
Machine-learned trends in mirror configurations in the large plasma device14
Hilbert expansion based fluid models for kinetic equations describing neutral particles in the plasma edge of a fusion device14
Exploring the parameter space of MagLIF implosions using similarity scaling. III. Rise-time scaling14
Self-generated magnetic field in laser plasma with super-Gaussian distributed electrons14
Mechanisms of shape transfer and preheating in indirect-drive double shell collisions14
Reconciling calculations and measurements of inverse bremsstrahlung absorption14
What are the fastest routes to fusion energy?14
Unexpected energetic particle observations near the Sun by Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter14
Evolution of the electron distribution function during gas ionization by a sub-nanosecond microwave pulse of hundreds MW power14
Equilibrium flow-induced bifurcation between quasi-steady and bursty dynamics of ballooning mode turbulence14
Impact of power flow on Z-pinch loads14
Ion heating enhancement in fast ignition through mid-Z doping14
Erratum: “Hamiltonian formulation of X-point collapse in an extended magnetohydrodynamics framework” [Phys. Plasmas 31, 102104 (2024)]14
Designing a large area field emitter for uniform electron emission14
Estimates of global recycling coefficients for LTX-β discharges14
Super-Fermi acceleration in multiscale MHD reconnection14
Excitation of cylindrical and spherical precursor solitons in a flowing dusty plasma: Experimental and simulation studies14
Global gyrokinetic simulation for toroidal impurity mode turbulence13
Fostering connection: Principles and practices for well-designed public engagement in physics13
Quantum computing perspective for electromagnetic wave propagation in cold magnetized plasmas13
Computing the generalized plasma dispersion function for non-Maxwellian plasmas, with applications to Thomson scattering13
The effect of pellet injection on turbulent transport in TJ-II13
How to evaluate neoclassical transport coefficients by a single δf simulation13
Anomalous transport of multi-species edge plasma with the generalized Hasegawa–Wakatani model and the FLR effects13
A square superlattice pattern formed through complex interactions among volume discharges and surface discharge in dielectric barrier discharge13
The impact of accelerating diode resonances on L-band high-power long-pulse relativistic backward wave oscillator operation13
Generation of powerful soft x-ray pulses with nanosecond increase of megaampere current through a metal rod13
Collisional-like dissipation in collisionless plasmas13
3D tracking of particles in a dusty plasma by laser sheet tomography13
Reversed Cherenkov radiation amplifier with compact structure and high efficiency13
Erratum: Nonequilibrium two-fluid plasmas can generate magnetic fields and flows simultaneously [Phys. Plasmas 17, 092102 (2010)]13
Self-absorption of emission lines in picosecond-laser-produced gold plasmas13
Toward electron temperature profiles in hot-dense plasmas from x-ray spectral ensembles13
Exploration of polar direct drive wetted foam concepts for neutron sources on the National Ignition Facility laser13
Effects of thermal instability on density limit disruption in J-TEXT13
Developing characteristics of the positive streamer in water with microsecond pulse voltage13
Femtosecond laser-induced sub-wavelength plasma inside dielectrics: I. Field enhancement13
A dynamo effect of multiple tearing modes on Taylor relaxation13
Peculiarities of leakage of the electromagnetic waves from striations12
A Raman quantum free-electron laser model12
Dynamic local field correction of the one-component plasma12
Kinetic Landau-fluid closures of non-Maxwellian distributions12
Response to “Comment on ‘ENN's roadmap for proton-boron fusion based on spherical torus’ by Vovkivsky and Chirkov” [Phys. Plasmas 32, 064701 (2025)]12
Plasma heating characterization of the large area inductively coupled plasma etchers with the plasma information for managing the mass production12
On the mechanism of density peak at low magnetic field in argon helicon plasmas12
Local momentum balance in electromagnetic gyrokinetic systems12
Limit cycle oscillations in the zonal-flow-catalyzed interactions of ion-temperature-gradient turbulence12
Plasma-resonance-assisted filament in a high-pressure microwave discharge12
Helium and hydrogen gas ionization by a sub-nanosecond high-power microwave pulse12
Analysis of the nonlinear dynamics of a chirping-frequency Alfvén mode in a tokamak equilibrium12
Empirical probability and machine learning analysis of m, n = 2, 1 tearing mode onset parameter dependence in DIII-D H-mode scenarios12
Investigation of stochastic heating and its influence on plasma radial uniformity in biased inductively coupled Ar discharges by hybrid simulation12
Large-incidence-angle multiple-beam two-plasmon decay instability in inertial confinement fusion12
Alfvén wave generation and electron energization in the KiNET-X sounding rocket mission12
Reviewer acknowledgment for 202112
Spatially resolved measurements of plasma ion velocity distributions in a dipole magnetic field12
Symmetry and structure in the “Generalized Plasma Focus problem”12
Erratum: “Study of cathode emission surface defects in relativistic magnetrons” [Phys. Plasmas 31, 023502 (2024)]12
Nonlinear coupling of tearing modes in reversed field pinch plasmas with stepped pressure profiles12
Spatio-temporal evolution of a nanosecond laser produced Zn plasma12
On the properties of Alfvénic switchbacks in the expanding solar wind: Three-dimensional numerical simulations12
Multi-pass cell spectral broadening at high pulse energies12
Self-organized magnetic equilibria in tokamak plasmas with very low edge safety factor12
Investigation on anode modes of vacuum arc under different contact opening speeds12
Proton acceleration in an overdense hydrogen plasma by intense CO2 laser pulses with nonlinear propagation effects in the underdense pre-plasma12
Hunting for sources of variability in laser-proton acceleration with thin foils12
Characteristics of a nanosecond pulsed dielectric barrier plasma actuator with a surface water film12
Quadrupolar density structures in driven magnetic reconnection experiments with a guide field12
Plasma electron spectroscopy in short glow discharge for registration of vapors and decomposition products of crystalline salts12
Drag exerted by drift-acoustic radiation on a magnetic island12
Confinement controlled dynamical structural rearrangement in a quasi-2D dusty plasma crystal12
The conversion efficiency of terahertz radiation produced by the filamentation of two femtosecond laser beams in highly charged noble gases12
Multi-scale evolution of Kelvin–Helmholtz waves at the Earth's magnetopause during southward IMF periods12
Mixed species ionospheric aerodynamics: Effects of charge and mass density variations11
Analysis of three-dimensional time-varying characteristics of subsonic plasma jet11
Experimental verification of TNSA protons and deuterons in the multi-picosecond moderate intensity regime11
Experiments and modeling of dust particle heating resulting from changes in polarity switching in the PK-4 microgravity laboratory11
Toward controlling electron beam charge with nanoparticle-assisted laser wakefield accelerators11
Linear gyrokinetic theory of two-dimensional ion-temperature-gradient mode in tokamaks11
Dust acoustic solitons in a positively charged dust plasma with regularized-κ distributed electrons in the presence of generalized polarization force11
A ReaxFF molecular dynamics study of insulation paper modification by plasma ROS11
Experimental quantification of the impact of heterogeneous mix on thermonuclear burn11
High-current relativistic plasma maser11
The colliding planar shocks platform to study warm dense matter at the National Ignition Facility11
3D particle-in-cell study of the electron drift instability in a Hall Thruster using unstructured grids11
A divergence-free constrained magnetic field interpolation method for scattered data11
Modulation of electron precipitation regulated by electron injection: PIC simulations11
Instability of Langmuir-beam waves: Kappa-distributed electrons11
Influence of anomalous perpendicular transport on linear tearing mode dynamics in tokamak plasmas11
A self-consistent electrostatic electrified shallow water model for charged liquid surface dynamics11
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