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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Quantum drift instability and self-interference of electron beam78
Erratum: “Exploring ultra-high-intensity wakefields in carbon nanotube arrays: An effective plasma-density approach” [Phys. Plasmas 30, 033105 (2023)]74
Effects of Kelvin–Helmholtz instability on the material mixing in the double-cone ignition70
Investigation of MHD instabilities and related dynamic interactions during the major disruption in the HL-2A tokamak59
Response to “Comment on ‘Modification of Lie's transform perturbation theory for charged particle motion in a magnetic field’” [Phys. Plasmas 30, 104701 (2023)]58
Representation learning algorithms for inferring machine independent latent features in pedestals in JET and AUG52
The sound speed of the relativistic free electron gas47
Effect of triangularity on ion-temperature-gradient-driven turbulence45
Effect of ion motion on breaking of longitudinal relativistically strong plasma waves: Khachatryan mode revisited43
Marginal stability of whistler-mode waves in plasma with multiple electron populations39
Theory of ion holes in plasmas with flat-topped electron distributions37
Photodetachment of H− in non-ideal classical plasmas36
Internal rotation of ELM filaments on NSTX36
Two-photon absorption laser induced fluorescence measurements of absolute neutral deuterium density, temperature, and bulk flow in Proto-MPEX36
Gyrokinetic simulations of turbulence and zonal flows driven by steep profile gradients using a delta-f approach with an evolving background Maxwellian36
Observation of pedestal quasi-coherent mode in Type-I ELMy H-mode of HL-2A tokamak33
Onset of instability with collapse observed in relatively high density and medium beta regions of LHD32
Role of initial conditions in plasma-current coupling of gas-puff Z-pinches31
The contribution of femtosecond laser filaments to positive and negative breakdown discharge in a long air gap30
Influences of spatial structure of plasma shock wave on electromagnetic wave propagation characteristics30
Modeling results on the dust charge distribution in a plasma afterglow29
Experimental study on influence of temperature on breakdown in a waveguide cavity29
Long filamentary discharge produced in helium spiral vortex29
The field theory of collective Cherenkov radiation associated with electron beams29
Understanding and controlling capsule symmetry in near vacuum hohlraums at the National Ignition Facility29
Data-driven linear time advance operators for the acceleration of plasma physics simulation28
Generation of bright collimated vortex γ -ray via laser driven cone-fan target28
Three-dimensional crescent-shaped ion velocity distributions created by magnetic reconnection in the presence of a guide field26
Ion acceleration from the interaction of ultrahigh-intensity laser pulses with near-critical density, nonuniform gas targets26
Nonlinear saturation of whistler modes driven by runaway electrons26
Self-consistent formation and steady-state characterization of trapped high-energy electron clouds in the presence of a neutral gas background26
Effects of electron viscosity on resonant layer responses to non-axisymmetric magnetic perturbations26
Effects of different working parameters on the turbulent drag reduction regulated by annular plasma synthetic jet actuators25
Shear-flow driven ion-acoustic instability in a non-thermal magnetoplasma25
A global model and two-dimensional simulation study of a low-pressure inductively coupled CF4 plasma considering non-Maxwellian EEDF24
Study on the generation of terahertz waves in collision plasma24
Development of a high performance MagLIF target platform using high aspect ratio coated liners and low-mix laser preheat24
Observation of laser ablation of silicon as a function of pulse length at constant fluence via time-resolved x-ray spectroscopy24
Extended bounce-kinetic model for trapped electron mode turbulence23
Theory and simulations of field strengths in magnetosonic shock waves in finite beta plasmas23
Density drop at the divertor target in the prototype material plasma exposure eXperiment (Proto-MPEX)23
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
Influence of reflections on mode-competition processes in a high-power multimode gyrotron23
The singlet S-wave resonances of He atom in dense quantum plasmas23
Threshold target thickness in high-contrast laser-driven ion acceleration23
Mass spectrometry of clustered flows during gas ionization by low-temperature plasma in the diffuser part of the nozzle22
Effects of the bounded geometry on the ion-acoustic waves22
Driving rotamak currents with minimal power dissipation22
Binary phase separation in strongly coupled plasma22
Laser measurements of static and dynamic dipole polarizability for 11 metal atoms using fast exploding wires in vacuum and integrated-phase technique22
Liner implosion experiments driven by a dynamic screw pinch22
A Grad-Shafranov model for compact quasisymmetric stellarators22
Dust-acoustic waves in weakly coupled (gaseous) cryogenic dusty plasma22
A polar direct drive liquid deuterium–tritium wetted foam target concept for inertial confinement fusion22
Bayesian optimization of laser wakefield acceleration in the self-modulated regime (SM-LWFA) aiming to produce molybdenum-99 via photonuclear reactions21
Integrated modeling of anisotropic neutron yields of classical and spherical tokamaks21
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)]21
Plasma bullet splitting behavior of a positive streamer initiated in an atmospheric pressure argon plasma jet20
KrF exciplexes formation in low temperature plasmas created in various gas mixtures20
Reviewer acknowledgment for 202420
A computationally efficient fluid model for atmospheric pressure plasma jet simulation using a spherical charge approximation20
Theory and simulation of the electrothermal instability in pulsed power electrode plasmas20
Similarity for downscaled kinetic simulations of electrostatic plasmas: Reconciling the large system size with small Debye length20
A reduced nonlinear model of synergy between wave-particle and wave-wave interactions19
Effect of inhomogeneous magnetic field on blue core in Ar helicon plasma19
Reliable charge measurement from configurational temperature analysis19
Experimental observations of detached bow shock formation in the interaction of a laser-produced plasma with a magnetized obstacle19
Chapman–Enskog derivation of multicomponent Navier–Stokes equations19
Simulation study of coupled two-stream and current filamentation instability excited by accelerator electron beams in plasmas19
Non-uniformity of the radial electric field for tokamak plasma on the low and the high toroidal magnetic field side18
Cross-beam energy transfer in conditions relevant to direct-drive implosions on OMEGA18
Numerical study of δ-function current sheets arising from resonant magnetic perturbations18
Platform for probing radiation transport properties of hydrogen at conditions found in the deep interiors of red dwarfs18
Fully differential analysis of the electron impact ionization of hydrogen in Debye plasmas18
Models for calculation of the sideways force due to the kink modes in tokamaks18
Method to determine the electron–ion temperature relaxation rate from test particle distributions18
The dynamics, mixing, and thermonuclear burn of compressed foams with varied gas fills18
Analysis of assumption about the possibility of the highly effective scenario of in-flight muon catalyzed fusion17
Simulations of non-integer upconversion in resonant six-wave scattering17
Single-mode wave decay17
Dynamics and manipulation of ultrashort laser pulses via plasma shutter17
Study on Townsend first ionization coefficient in a streamer filament of the pulsed electric discharge in water17
Nonlinear study of transition modes in the chaotic time series obtained in different negative differential resistance regimes17
Effect of overlapping laser beams and density scale length in laser-plasma instability experiments on OMEGA EP17
Application of mesh refinement to relativistic magnetic reconnection17
Methodology for measuring the energy characteristics of two-electrode gas discharge plasma switches in the picosecond range using the reflectometry method17
Augmenting machine learning of Grad–Shafranov equilibrium reconstruction with Green's functions16
Using tabulated NLTE data for Hohlraum simulations16
Correlation between gamma photon emission and magnetic islands in laser-driven plasma channel16
Investigation of collision effects on ion dynamics in the presheath and sheath of weakly collisional and magnetized hydrogen plasmas16
Design and analysis of dudded fuel experiments at the National Ignition Facility16
Particle dynamics in dusty plasma: Classical tunneling16
Edge plasma relaxations due to diamagnetic stabilization16
High-frequency leaky standing sausage and kink mode waves in magnetic slab16
Potential development and electron energy confinement in an expanding magnetic field divertor geometry16
Staged Z-pinch radiation-hydrodynamic simulations on a 20-MA driver16
What are the fastest routes to fusion energy?16
Exploring the parameter space of MagLIF implosions using similarity scaling. III. Rise-time scaling16
Quantum computing perspective for electromagnetic wave propagation in cold magnetized plasmas16
Modeling the spectral modification of lower hybrid wave in the presence of drift-wave type density fluctuation in the scrape-off-layer of the EAST tokamak16
Head-on collision of large-scale high density plasmas jets: A first-principle kinetic simulation approach16
Highly efficient superradiant oscillator with front-extraction output in TE11 mode operating at low magnetic field16
Matter transport as fundamental property of acoustic solitons in plasma16
Long-wavelength electromagnetic waves of surface type in circular metal waveguides partially filled by plasma in presence of an axial static magnetic field15
High-resolution emission spectroscopy of W I lines: Comparing near-threshold sputtering of mono- and polycrystalline tungsten by Ar ions15
Kinetic theory of nonrelativistic electron beam–inhomogeneous plasma system instability15
N-body plasma simulation of classical and Bohm diffusion employing Kepler's analytical solutions15
Gyrokinetic simulation of isotope effect on zonal flow response in tokamaks15
An experimental study of the existence regions and non-linear interactions of drift wave and Kelvin–Helmholtz instabilities in a linear magnetized plasma15
Unexpected energetic particle observations near the Sun by Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter15
Excitation of cylindrical and spherical precursor solitons in a flowing dusty plasma: Experimental and simulation studies15
Evolution of the electron distribution function during gas ionization by a sub-nanosecond microwave pulse of hundreds MW power15
Some aspects of the plasma potential in 3D simulation of ECRIS operation15
Computing the generalized plasma dispersion function for non-Maxwellian plasmas, with applications to Thomson scattering15
Influence of different kinetic heating mechanisms on the dynamics of a trapped Brownian particle in a complex plasma15
KdV equation for kinetic Alfvén waves and ionospheric solitons15
Estimates of global recycling coefficients for LTX-β discharges15
Generation of the high power by a coaxial dielectric barrier discharge with a perforated electrode in atmospheric pressure air15
Calculation of tearing mode stability in an inverse aspect-ratio expanded tokamak plasma equilibrium15
Erratum: “Correlation between the relative blob fraction and plasma parameters in NSTX” [Phys. Plasmas 29, 012505 (2022)]15
Verification of a fully kinetic ion model for electromagnetic simulations of high-frequency waves in toroidal geometry15
Electron kinetics near the minimum of Paschen's curves of pulsed breakdown15
Excitation of ion acoustic collisionless shock by a moving obstacle15
Self-generated magnetic field in laser plasma with super-Gaussian distributed electrons15
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
Experimental studies of a novel one-dimensional plasma window14
ICF target optimization using generative AI14
Nonlinear excitation of geodesic acoustic mode by drift waves in anisotropic tokamak plasmas with toroidal rotation14
Designing a large area field emitter for uniform electron emission14
Confinement of intense proton beams by an applied axial magnetic field in large-scale plasma14
Role of the pedestal current on the stability of non-ideal ballooning modes14
Effect of particle mass inhomogeneity on the two-dimensional Rayleigh–Bénard system of Yukawa liquids: A molecular dynamics study14
Mechanisms of shape transfer and preheating in indirect-drive double shell collisions14
A foreword to the special issue: Proceedings of PLASMA 2023—International Conference on Research and Applications of Plasmas14
Erratum: “Hamiltonian formulation of X-point collapse in an extended magnetohydrodynamics framework” [Phys. Plasmas 31, 102104 (2024)]14
Unveiling non-flat profiles within magnetic islands in tokamaks14
Statistical analysis of high-frequency whistler waves at Earth's bow shock: Further support for stochastic shock drift acceleration14
Hysteresis control using a DC magnetic field in an argon inductively coupled plasma14
Ion energy distribution function in very high frequency capacitive discharges excited by saw-tooth waveform14
Characterization of sub-picosecond laser-produced fast electrons by modeling angularly resolved bremsstrahlung measurements with 3D hybrid particle-in-cell code14
Linear ion-scale microstability analysis of high and low-collisionality NSTX discharges and NSTX-U projections14
Nonlinear evolution, propagation, electron-trapping, and damping effects of ion-acoustic solitons using fully kinetic PIC simulations14
Emulation techniques for scenario and classical control design of tokamak plasmas14
Investigations of the sheath in a dual-frequency capacitively coupled rf discharge by optically trapped microparticles14
Study of radiative shocks using 2D interferometry and XUV spectroscopy14
Beyond optimization—supervised learning applications in relativistic laser-plasma experiments14
Numerical investigation of internal plasma currents in a magnetic nozzle14
Impact of power flow on Z-pinch loads13
Non-ideal MHD growth of current interchange tearing modes at plasma edge and response to externally-imposed flow13
Intricate structure of the plasma Rayleigh–Taylor instability in shock tubes13
Relativistic Maxwellian mixture model13
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)]13
Magnetic field evolution and reconnection in low resistivity plasmas13
Collisional space-charge-limited current with monoenergetic velocity: From Child–Langmuir to Mott–Gurney13
Resonant excitation of whistler wave via Cherenkov emission by sweeping radio frequency heated hot spot across the equatorial electrojet13
Modeling the electron density distribution of high-enthalpy plasma jets through chemical reaction method13
Hilbert expansion based fluid models for kinetic equations describing neutral particles in the plasma edge of a fusion device13
Super-Fermi acceleration in multiscale MHD reconnection13
Laboratory study of Kelvin–Helmholtz instability at ion kinetic scales13
Quantum edge plasmon excitations and electron spill-out effect13
Causal analysis among azimuthal Fourier modes in linear plasma based on multivariate time series models13
Parametrization of coefficients for sub-grid modeling of pitch-angle diffusion in global magnetospheric hybrid-Vlasov simulations13
Identification of stimulated Raman side scattering in near-spherical coronal plasmas on OMEGA EP13
Two-stream instability with a growth rate insensitive to collisions in a dissipative plasma jet13
Anomalous resistivity and electron heating by lower hybrid drift waves inside reconnecting current sheets13
Collisional-like dissipation in collisionless plasmas13
Numerical study of the suppression of magnetic reconnection onset with injected plasma13
Reconciling calculations and measurements of inverse bremsstrahlung absorption13
Electron energization and thermal to non-thermal energy partition during earth's magnetotail reconnection13
Hydrodynamic instabilities in a highly radiative environment12
Plasma dynamics and collisional magnetic presheath structure in unmagnetized divertor plasma in fusion devices12
Exploration of polar direct drive wetted foam concepts for neutron sources on the National Ignition Facility laser12
Proton acceleration in an overdense hydrogen plasma by intense CO2 laser pulses with nonlinear propagation effects in the underdense pre-plasma12
A square superlattice pattern formed through complex interactions among volume discharges and surface discharge in dielectric barrier discharge12
Investigation of stochastic heating and its influence on plasma radial uniformity in biased inductively coupled Ar discharges by hybrid simulation12
Theory, simulation, and experiments on a magnetically insulated line oscillator (MILO) at 10 kA, 240 kV near Hull cutoff condition12
Multi-pass cell spectral broadening at high pulse energies12
Absorption of relativistic multi-picosecond laser pulses in wire arrays12
Reactive molecular dynamics simulations on interaction mechanisms of cold atmospheric plasmas and peptides12
Charged-particle transport in high energy density plasmas12
Self-generated magnetic field in ablative Rayleigh–Taylor instability12
StyleGAN as an AI deconvolution operator for large eddy simulations of turbulent plasma equations in BOUT++12
Theoretical calculation and particle-in-cell simulation of a multi-mode relativistic backward wave oscillator operating at low magnetic field12
Rising dynamics of bubbles generated by femtosecond laser filamentation in water12
Femtosecond laser-induced sub-wavelength plasma inside dielectrics: I. Field enhancement12
Self-organized magnetic equilibria in tokamak plasmas with very low edge safety factor12
Analysis of the nonlinear dynamics of a chirping-frequency Alfvén mode in a tokamak equilibrium12
DC electric field generation and distribution in magnetized plasmas12
Generation and enhancement of vortex terahertz radiation through two-color lasers with different modes by Gaussian and Laguerre–Gaussian in a homogeneous plasma12
A theoretical explanation of the density of backstreaming ion beams at oblique collisionless shocks12
On the collisional damping of plasma velocity space instabilities12
The electron acoustic waves in plasmas with two kappa-distributed electrons at the same temperatures and immobile ions12
Cold ion crescent echoes in the exhaust of symmetric magnetic reconnection12
Effect of collisions on non-adiabatic electron dynamics in ITG-driven microturbulence12
Erratum: Nonequilibrium two-fluid plasmas can generate magnetic fields and flows simultaneously [Phys. Plasmas 17, 092102 (2010)]12
How to evaluate neoclassical transport coefficients by a single δf simulation12
The colliding planar shocks platform to study warm dense matter at the National Ignition Facility12
Assessing physics of ion temperature gradient turbulence via hierarchical reduced-model representations12
Simplified derivation of the Kompaneets equation12
Benchmarking NIMROD continuum kinetic formulations through the steady-state poloidal flow12
Drift waves and ion temperature gradient instabilities in the large linear device SPEKTRE12
Experimental research on a novel C-band compact transit-time oscillator with low guiding magnetic field11
Linear gyrokinetic theory of two-dimensional ion-temperature-gradient mode in tokamaks11
Intermittent discharge in a complex stripe pattern in dielectric barrier discharge11
Orbital debris-generated ion acoustic solitons in isothermal magnetized plasma11
Experiments and modeling of dust particle heating resulting from changes in polarity switching in the PK-4 microgravity laboratory11
Helium and hydrogen gas ionization by a sub-nanosecond high-power microwave pulse11
Numerical investigation of the directional control of electron density and gas temperature in atmospheric pressure dielectric barrier discharge by using low- and high-frequency coupling modulation11
Analysis of three-dimensional time-varying characteristics of subsonic plasma jet11
Nonlinear dynamics of small-scale Alfvén waves11
Erratum: “Study of cathode emission surface defects in relativistic magnetrons” [Phys. Plasmas 31, 023502 (2024)]11
Plasma-resonance-assisted filament in a high-pressure microwave discharge11
Plasma heating characterization of the large area inductively coupled plasma etchers with the plasma information for managing the mass production11
On the properties of Alfvénic switchbacks in the expanding solar wind: Three-dimensional numerical simulations11
Nonlinear coupling of tearing modes in reversed field pinch plasmas with stepped pressure profiles11
On the mechanism of density peak at low magnetic field in argon helicon plasmas11
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
Quadrupolar density structures in driven magnetic reconnection experiments with a guide field11
The effect of dust on the propagation of a hydromagnetic solitary wave along the magnetic field in a cold collision-free plasma11
Magnetohydrodynamic features and particle transport during thermal quench in HL-2A with density source11
Plasma electron spectroscopy in short glow discharge for registration of vapors and decomposition products of crystalline salts11
Enhancement of the conversion efficiency of soft x-ray by colliding gold plasmas11
Feasibility and performance of the staged Z-pinch: A one-dimensional study with FLASH and MACH211
Confinement controlled dynamical structural rearrangement in a quasi-2D dusty plasma crystal11
Drag exerted by drift-acoustic radiation on a magnetic island11
Reversed Cherenkov radiation amplifier with compact structure and high efficiency11
Effects of magnetic field on the secondary electron asymmetry effect in capacitively coupled plasmas11
A dynamo effect of multiple tearing modes on Taylor relaxation11
Local momentum balance in electromagnetic gyrokinetic systems11
Limit cycle oscillations in the zonal-flow-catalyzed interactions of ion-temperature-gradient turbulence11
Spatially resolved measurements of plasma ion velocity distributions in a dipole magnetic field11
Symmetry and structure in the “Generalized Plasma Focus problem”11
Modulation of electron precipitation regulated by electron injection: PIC simulations11
Evaluating the importance of Raman and Brillouin side scattering at ignition conditions11
The conversion efficiency of terahertz radiation produced by the filamentation of two femtosecond laser beams in highly charged noble gases11
Investigation on anode modes of vacuum arc under different contact opening speeds11
Dynamic local field correction of the one-component plasma11
Instability of Langmuir-beam waves: Kappa-distributed electrons11
Alfvén wave generation and electron energization in the KiNET-X sounding rocket mission11
Characterization of fast magnetosonic waves driven by compact toroid plasma injection along a magnetic field11
Temporal electric field and electron density behavior of a He plasma jet with pulse width closing to pulse duration11
A self-consistent method for solving ion diffusion and mobility coefficients10
Experimental study of even harmonic multiplication in a relativistic gyrotron10
Onset of internal transport barriers in tokamaks10
Multi-scale evolution of Kelvin–Helmholtz waves at the Earth's magnetopause during southward IMF periods10
A divergence-free constrained magnetic field interpolation method for scattered data10
Multi-level noise reduction for 2D backlighting x-ray radiography using Frequency Residual U-Net10
Publisher's Note: “First graded metal pushered single shell capsule implosions on the National Ignition Facility” [Phys. Plasmas 29, 052707 (2022)]10
On the merit of hot ion mode for tearing mode stabilization10
Quadruple probe measurements to estimate thrust to power ratios for a pulsed deflagration plasma jet10
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