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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Effects of deuterium-tritium mix on linear growth rates of the magnetoacoustic cyclotron instability in fusion plasmas88
Laser measurements of static and dynamic dipole polarizability for 11 metal atoms using fast exploding wires in vacuum and integrated-phase technique73
Erratum: “Exploring ultra-high-intensity wakefields in carbon nanotube arrays: An effective plasma-density approach” [Phys. Plasmas 30, 033105 (2023)]66
Cross-beam energy transfer in conditions relevant to direct-drive implosions on OMEGA58
Understanding and controlling capsule symmetry in near vacuum hohlraums at the National Ignition Facility51
Fully differential analysis of the electron impact ionization of hydrogen in Debye plasmas49
Edge plasma relaxations due to diamagnetic stabilization48
Extended bounce-kinetic model for trapped electron mode turbulence43
Chapman–Enskog derivation of multicomponent Navier–Stokes equations42
Application of mesh refinement to relativistic magnetic reconnection41
Modeling results on the dust charge distribution in a plasma afterglow38
Nonlinear study of transition modes in the chaotic time series obtained in different negative differential resistance regimes35
Development of a high performance MagLIF target platform using high aspect ratio coated liners and low-mix laser preheat35
The contribution of femtosecond laser filaments to positive and negative breakdown discharge in a long air gap34
Platform for probing radiation transport properties of hydrogen at conditions found in the deep interiors of red dwarfs33
Kinetic Alfvén waves in the overlap region between the plasmasphere and ring current32
Internal rotation of ELM filaments on NSTX32
Photodetachment of H− in non-ideal classical plasmas31
The field theory of collective Cherenkov radiation associated with electron beams31
Plasma dynamics of an Al plasma in AlTi or AlAu mixtures heated by the PICO2000 ultra-intense laser pulse30
Effects of different working parameters on the turbulent drag reduction regulated by annular plasma synthetic jet actuators30
Stability of ultra-intense laser pulse propagation in a transversely perturbed plasma channel30
Marginal stability of whistler-mode waves in plasma with multiple electron populations30
Theory of ion holes in plasmas with flat-topped electron distributions29
Binary phase separation in strongly coupled plasma28
Plasma bullet splitting behavior of a positive streamer initiated in an atmospheric pressure argon plasma jet28
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
Reliable charge measurement from configurational temperature analysis28
Similarity for downscaled kinetic simulations of electrostatic plasmas: Reconciling the large system size with small Debye length28
Integrated modeling of anisotropic neutron yields of classical and spherical tokamaks28
Three-dimensional crescent-shaped ion velocity distributions created by magnetic reconnection in the presence of a guide field28
Effects of electron viscosity on resonant layer responses to non-axisymmetric magnetic perturbations27
KrF exciplexes formation in low temperature plasmas created in various gas mixtures27
Single-mode wave decay27
Dynamics and manipulation of ultrashort laser pulses via plasma shutter27
Ion acceleration from the interaction of ultrahigh-intensity laser pulses with near-critical density, nonuniform gas targets26
Shear-flow driven ion-acoustic instability in a non-thermal magnetoplasma25
Nonlinear saturation of whistler modes driven by runaway electrons25
Reviewer acknowledgment for 202425
Role of initial conditions in plasma-current coupling of gas-puff Z-pinches24
Gyrokinetic simulations of turbulence and zonal flows driven by steep profile gradients using a delta-f approach with an evolving background Maxwellian24
The singlet S-wave resonances of He atom in dense quantum plasmas24
A reduced nonlinear model of synergy between wave-particle and wave-wave interactions24
Density drop at the divertor target in the prototype material plasma exposure eXperiment (Proto-MPEX)24
Methodology for measuring the energy characteristics of two-electrode gas discharge plasma switches in the picosecond range using the reflectometry method23
Simulations of non-integer upconversion in resonant six-wave scattering23
Effect of triangularity on ion-temperature-gradient-driven turbulence23
Theory and simulation of the electrothermal instability in pulsed power electrode plasmas23
Characterization of self-magnetic pinch (SMP) radiographic diode performance on RITS-6 at Sandia National Laboratories. I. Diode dynamics, DC heating to extend radiation pulse23
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
Study on the generation of terahertz waves in collision plasma22
Investigation of MHD instabilities and related dynamic interactions during the major disruption in the HL-2A tokamak22
A global model and two-dimensional simulation study of a low-pressure inductively coupled CF4 plasma considering non-Maxwellian EEDF22
Observation of laser ablation of silicon as a function of pulse length at constant fluence via time-resolved x-ray spectroscopy21
A computationally efficient fluid model for atmospheric pressure plasma jet simulation using a spherical charge approximation21
Long filamentary discharge produced in helium spiral vortex21
Generation of bright collimated vortex γ -ray via laser driven cone-fan target21
Self-consistent formation and steady-state characterization of trapped high-energy electron clouds in the presence of a neutral gas background20
Influence of reflections on mode-competition processes in a high-power multimode gyrotron20
Effect of overlapping laser beams and density scale length in laser-plasma instability experiments on OMEGA EP20
Driving rotamak currents with minimal power dissipation20
Theory and simulations of field strengths in magnetosonic shock waves in finite beta plasmas20
Analysis of assumption about the possibility of the highly effective scenario of in-flight muon catalyzed fusion20
Study on Townsend first ionization coefficient in a streamer filament of the pulsed electric discharge in water20
Effects of the bounded geometry on the ion-acoustic waves19
Method to determine the electron–ion temperature relaxation rate from test particle distributions19
Effect of inhomogeneous magnetic field on blue core in Ar helicon plasma19
Numerical study of δ-function current sheets arising from resonant magnetic perturbations19
Non-uniformity of the radial electric field for tokamak plasma on the low and the high toroidal magnetic field side19
Models for calculation of the sideways force due to the kink modes in tokamaks19
Effects of Kelvin–Helmholtz instability on the material mixing in the double-cone ignition18
Simulation study of coupled two-stream and current filamentation instability excited by accelerator electron beams in plasmas18
The dynamics, mixing, and thermonuclear burn of compressed foams with varied gas fills18
The sound speed of the relativistic free electron gas18
Data-driven linear time advance operators for the acceleration of plasma physics simulation18
Experimental observations of detached bow shock formation in the interaction of a laser-produced plasma with a magnetized obstacle18
Mass spectrometry of clustered flows during gas ionization by low-temperature plasma in the diffuser part of the nozzle18
Investigation of chemical kinetics in plasma-assisted ammonia conversion processes18
Onset of instability with collapse observed in relatively high density and medium beta regions of LHD18
Constraints of radiation loss on thermonuclear reactor designs based on burning p–11B in a dense plasma focus18
Using tabulated NLTE data for Hohlraum simulations18
Threshold target thickness in high-contrast laser-driven ion acceleration18
Linear stability of equilibria with magnetic island chains according to a reduced four-field model and to Hall incompressible magnetohydrodynamics18
Influences of spatial structure of plasma shock wave on electromagnetic wave propagation characteristics18
What drives chorus wave frequency chirping?18
A polar direct drive liquid deuterium–tritium wetted foam target concept for inertial confinement fusion18
Highly efficient superradiant oscillator with front-extraction output in TE11 mode operating at low magnetic field17
Bayesian optimization of laser wakefield acceleration in the self-modulated regime (SM-LWFA) aiming to produce molybdenum-99 via photonuclear reactions17
A Grad-Shafranov model for compact quasisymmetric stellarators17
Augmenting machine learning of Grad–Shafranov equilibrium reconstruction with Green's functions17
Effect of particle mass inhomogeneity on the two-dimensional Rayleigh–Bénard system of Yukawa liquids: A molecular dynamics study17
Influence of different kinetic heating mechanisms on the dynamics of a trapped Brownian particle in a complex plasma17
Erratum: “Correlation between the relative blob fraction and plasma parameters in NSTX” [Phys. Plasmas 29, 012505 (2022)]17
Observation of pedestal quasi-coherent mode in Type-I ELMy H-mode of HL-2A tokamak17
Representation learning algorithms for inferring machine independent latent features in pedestals in JET and AUG17
Excitation of ion acoustic collisionless shock by a moving obstacle17
Laboratory study of Kelvin–Helmholtz instability at ion kinetic scales17
Characterization of sub-picosecond laser-produced fast electrons by modeling angularly resolved bremsstrahlung measurements with 3D hybrid particle-in-cell code17
Experimental study on influence of temperature on breakdown in a waveguide cavity17
Periodic Korteweg–de Vries soliton potentials generate quasisymmetric magnetic field strength in a finite plasma-β equilibrium17
Hydrodynamic instabilities in a highly radiative environment17
Relativistic Maxwellian mixture model17
Nonlinear excitation of geodesic acoustic mode by drift waves in anisotropic tokamak plasmas with toroidal rotation17
Investigation of collision effects on ion dynamics in the presheath and sheath of weakly collisional and magnetized hydrogen plasmas16
Numerical study of the suppression of magnetic reconnection onset with injected plasma16
Particle dynamics in dusty plasma: Classical tunneling16
Gyrokinetic simulation of isotope effect on zonal flow response in tokamaks16
Potential development and electron energy confinement in an expanding magnetic field divertor geometry16
Hysteresis control using a DC magnetic field in an argon inductively coupled plasma16
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)]16
Parametrization of coefficients for sub-grid modeling of pitch-angle diffusion in global magnetospheric hybrid-Vlasov simulations16
Causal analysis among azimuthal Fourier modes in linear plasma based on multivariate time series models16
Long-wavelength electromagnetic waves of surface type in circular metal waveguides partially filled by plasma in presence of an axial static magnetic field16
Anomalous resistivity and electron heating by lower hybrid drift waves inside reconnecting current sheets16
Confinement of intense proton beams by an applied axial magnetic field in large-scale plasma16
Head-on collision of large-scale high density plasmas jets: A first-principle kinetic simulation approach16
Collisional space-charge-limited current with monoenergetic velocity: From Child–Langmuir to Mott–Gurney16
Plasma dynamics and collisional magnetic presheath structure in unmagnetized divertor plasma in fusion devices16
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
Some aspects of the plasma potential in 3D simulation of ECRIS operation16
Unveiling non-flat profiles within magnetic islands in tokamaks15
A theoretical explanation of the density of backstreaming ion beams at oblique collisionless shocks15
Charged-particle transport in high energy density plasmas15
Designing a large area field emitter for uniform electron emission15
On the collisional damping of plasma velocity space instabilities15
Electron kinetics near the minimum of Paschen's curves of pulsed breakdown15
A foreword to the special issue: Proceedings of PLASMA 2023—International Conference on Research and Applications of Plasmas15
An experimental study of the existence regions and non-linear interactions of drift wave and Kelvin–Helmholtz instabilities in a linear magnetized plasma15
Self-generated magnetic field in laser plasma with super-Gaussian distributed electrons15
Resonant excitation of whistler wave via Cherenkov emission by sweeping radio frequency heated hot spot across the equatorial electrojet15
Computing the generalized plasma dispersion function for non-Maxwellian plasmas, with applications to Thomson scattering15
ICF target optimization using generative AI15
Role of the pedestal current on the stability of non-ideal ballooning modes15
Calculation of tearing mode stability in an inverse aspect-ratio expanded tokamak plasma equilibrium15
Kinetic theory of nonrelativistic electron beam–inhomogeneous plasma system instability15
Verification of a fully kinetic ion model for electromagnetic simulations of high-frequency waves in toroidal geometry14
Exploring the parameter space of MagLIF implosions using similarity scaling. III. Rise-time scaling14
Linear ion-scale microstability analysis of high and low-collisionality NSTX discharges and NSTX-U projections14
Two-stream instability with a growth rate insensitive to collisions in a dissipative plasma jet14
Modeling the electron density distribution of high-enthalpy plasma jets through chemical reaction method14
Erratum: “Hamiltonian formulation of X-point collapse in an extended magnetohydrodynamics framework” [Phys. Plasmas 31, 102104 (2024)]14
Experimental demonstration of interferometric discharge structure identification of atmospheric millimeter-wave discharge at subcritical conditions using 28 GHz gyrotron14
Quantum edge plasmon excitations and electron spill-out effect14
Identification of stimulated Raman side scattering in near-spherical coronal plasmas on OMEGA EP14
KdV equation for kinetic Alfvén waves and ionospheric solitons14
Exploration of polar direct drive wetted foam concepts for neutron sources on the National Ignition Facility laser14
Nonlinear evolution, propagation, electron-trapping, and damping effects of ion-acoustic solitons using fully kinetic PIC simulations14
Quantum computing perspective for electromagnetic wave propagation in cold magnetized plasmas14
Statistical analysis of high-frequency whistler waves at Earth's bow shock: Further support for stochastic shock drift acceleration14
Estimates of global recycling coefficients for LTX-β discharges14
High-frequency leaky standing sausage and kink mode waves in magnetic slab14
Ion heating enhancement in fast ignition through mid-Z doping14
Machine-learned trends in mirror configurations in the large plasma device14
Correlation between gamma photon emission and magnetic islands in laser-driven plasma channel14
Magnetic field evolution and reconnection in low resistivity plasmas14
Intricate structure of the plasma Rayleigh–Taylor instability in shock tubes14
High-resolution emission spectroscopy of W I lines: Comparing near-threshold sputtering of mono- and polycrystalline tungsten by Ar ions14
Unexpected energetic particle observations near the Sun by Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter14
N-body plasma simulation of classical and Bohm diffusion employing Kepler's analytical solutions14
Matter transport as fundamental property of acoustic solitons in plasma14
Mechanisms of shape transfer and preheating in indirect-drive double shell collisions14
General kinetic ion-induced electron emission model for metallic walls applied to biased Z-pinch electrodes14
Impact of power flow on Z-pinch loads14
Staged Z-pinch radiation-hydrodynamic simulations on a 20-MA driver14
Evolution of the electron distribution function during gas ionization by a sub-nanosecond microwave pulse of hundreds MW power14
Non-ideal MHD growth of current interchange tearing modes at plasma edge and response to externally-imposed flow14
Drift waves and ion temperature gradient instabilities in the large linear device SPEKTRE13
Fostering connection: Principles and practices for well-designed public engagement in physics13
The impact of accelerating diode resonances on L-band high-power long-pulse relativistic backward wave oscillator operation13
Electron energization and thermal to non-thermal energy partition during earth's magnetotail reconnection13
Design and analysis of dudded fuel experiments at the National Ignition Facility13
StyleGAN as an AI deconvolution operator for large eddy simulations of turbulent plasma equations in BOUT++13
What are the fastest routes to fusion energy?13
Study of radiative shocks using 2D interferometry and XUV spectroscopy13
Self-consistent calculations of the electric charge, ion drag force, and the drift velocity of spherical grains using Langevin dynamics and comparisons against canonical experiments13
A divergence-free constrained magnetic field interpolation method for scattered data13
Mixed species ionospheric aerodynamics: Effects of charge and mass density variations13
Toward electron temperature profiles in hot-dense plasmas from x-ray spectral ensembles13
3D tracking of particles in a dusty plasma by laser sheet tomography13
Reactive molecular dynamics simulations on interaction mechanisms of cold atmospheric plasmas and peptides13
Emulation techniques for scenario and classical control design of tokamak plasmas13
Self-generated magnetic field in ablative Rayleigh–Taylor instability13
Collisional-like dissipation in collisionless plasmas13
Effects of thermal instability on density limit disruption in J-TEXT13
Why is there no generally accepted theory of the plasma-sheath transition and the Bohm criterion?13
Generation of powerful soft x-ray pulses with nanosecond increase of megaampere current through a metal rod13
Dust acoustic solitons in a positively charged dust plasma with regularized-κ distributed electrons in the presence of generalized polarization force13
Developing characteristics of the positive streamer in water with microsecond pulse voltage13
Excitation of cylindrical and spherical precursor solitons in a flowing dusty plasma: Experimental and simulation studies13
Reconciling calculations and measurements of inverse bremsstrahlung absorption13
Hilbert expansion based fluid models for kinetic equations describing neutral particles in the plasma edge of a fusion device13
The optimized mathematical treatment on the correct cutoff for integrals with the Rutherford scattering cross section13
Super-Fermi acceleration in multiscale MHD reconnection13
Global gyrokinetic simulation for toroidal impurity mode turbulence12
The conversion efficiency of terahertz radiation produced by the filamentation of two femtosecond laser beams in highly charged noble gases12
Symmetry and structure in the “Generalized Plasma Focus problem”12
Analysis of three-dimensional time-varying characteristics of subsonic plasma jet12
Limit cycle oscillations in the zonal-flow-catalyzed interactions of ion-temperature-gradient turbulence12
Enhancement of the conversion efficiency of soft x-ray by colliding gold plasmas12
How to evaluate neoclassical transport coefficients by a single δf simulation12
A dynamo effect of multiple tearing modes on Taylor relaxation12
Local momentum balance in electromagnetic gyrokinetic systems12
Anomalous transport of multi-species edge plasma with the generalized Hasegawa–Wakatani model and the FLR effects12
A square superlattice pattern formed through complex interactions among volume discharges and surface discharge in dielectric barrier discharge12
Confinement controlled dynamical structural rearrangement in a quasi-2D dusty plasma crystal12
Alfvén wave generation and electron energization in the KiNET-X sounding rocket mission12
Erratum: “Study of cathode emission surface defects in relativistic magnetrons” [Phys. Plasmas 31, 023502 (2024)]12
Linear gyrokinetic theory of two-dimensional ion-temperature-gradient mode in tokamaks12
Drag exerted by drift-acoustic radiation on a magnetic island12
On the mechanism of density peak at low magnetic field in argon helicon plasmas12
Femtosecond laser-induced sub-wavelength plasma inside dielectrics: I. Field enhancement12
The effect of pellet injection on turbulent transport in TJ-II12
Self-absorption of emission lines in picosecond-laser-produced gold plasmas12
Plasma-resonance-assisted filament in a high-pressure microwave discharge12
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
Magnetohydrodynamic features and particle transport during thermal quench in HL-2A with density source12
Nonlinear coupling of tearing modes in reversed field pinch plasmas with stepped pressure profiles12
Reversed Cherenkov radiation amplifier with compact structure and high efficiency12
Erratum: Nonequilibrium two-fluid plasmas can generate magnetic fields and flows simultaneously [Phys. Plasmas 17, 092102 (2010)]12
Theory, simulation, and experiments on a magnetically insulated line oscillator (MILO) at 10 kA, 240 kV near Hull cutoff condition12
Hunting for sources of variability in laser-proton acceleration with thin foils11
Helium and hydrogen gas ionization by a sub-nanosecond high-power microwave pulse11
Dynamic local field correction of the one-component plasma11
Multi-pass cell spectral broadening at high pulse energies11
Empirical probability and machine learning analysis of m, n = 2, 1 tearing mode onset parameter dependence in DIII-D H-mode scenarios11
Investigation of stochastic heating and its influence on plasma radial uniformity in biased inductively coupled Ar discharges by hybrid simulation11
Effects of magnetic field on the secondary electron asymmetry effect in capacitively coupled plasmas11
Analysis of the nonlinear dynamics of a chirping-frequency Alfvén mode in a tokamak equilibrium11
Feasibility and performance of the staged Z-pinch: A one-dimensional study with FLASH and MACH211
Spatially resolved measurements of plasma ion velocity distributions in a dipole magnetic field11
Proton acceleration in an overdense hydrogen plasma by intense CO2 laser pulses with nonlinear propagation effects in the underdense pre-plasma11
Large-incidence-angle multiple-beam two-plasmon decay instability in inertial confinement fusion11
Peculiarities of leakage of the electromagnetic waves from striations11
Role of hot electrons in mitigating ablative Rayleigh–Taylor instability11
Plasma heating characterization of the large area inductively coupled plasma etchers with the plasma information for managing the mass production11
Instability of Langmuir-beam waves: Kappa-distributed electrons11
Multi-scale evolution of Kelvin–Helmholtz waves at the Earth's magnetopause during southward IMF periods11
Response to “Comment on ‘ENN's roadmap for proton-boron fusion based on spherical torus’ by Vovkivsky and Chirkov” [Phys. Plasmas 32, 064701 (2025)]11
Spatio-temporal evolution of a nanosecond laser produced Zn plasma11
On the properties of Alfvénic switchbacks in the expanding solar wind: Three-dimensional numerical simulations11
Self-organized magnetic equilibria in tokamak plasmas with very low edge safety factor11
The colliding planar shocks platform to study warm dense matter at the National Ignition Facility11
Experimental quantification of the impact of heterogeneous mix on thermonuclear burn11
Investigation on anode modes of vacuum arc under different contact opening speeds11
Assessing physics of ion temperature gradient turbulence via hierarchical reduced-model representations11
A Raman quantum free-electron laser model11
Experimental verification of TNSA protons and deuterons in the multi-picosecond moderate intensity regime11
Characterization of fast magnetosonic waves driven by compact toroid plasma injection along a magnetic field11
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