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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Erratum: “Exploring ultra-high-intensity wakefields in carbon nanotube arrays: An effective plasma-density approach” [Phys. Plasmas 30, 033105 (2023)]80
The field theory of collective Cherenkov radiation associated with electron beams72
Effects of Kelvin–Helmholtz instability on the material mixing in the double-cone ignition61
Investigation of MHD instabilities and related dynamic interactions during the major disruption in the HL-2A tokamak60
Response to “Comment on ‘Modification of Lie's transform perturbation theory for charged particle motion in a magnetic field’” [Phys. Plasmas 30, 104701 (2023)]52
Representation learning algorithms for inferring machine independent latent features in pedestals in JET and AUG47
The sound speed of the relativistic free electron gas46
Effect of triangularity on ion-temperature-gradient-driven turbulence45
Marginal stability of whistler-mode waves in plasma with multiple electron populations40
Effect of ion motion on breaking of longitudinal relativistically strong plasma waves: Khachatryan mode revisited40
Theory of ion holes in plasmas with flat-topped electron distributions38
Gyrokinetic simulations of turbulence and zonal flows driven by steep profile gradients using a delta-f approach with an evolving background Maxwellian37
Internal rotation of ELM filaments on NSTX36
Observation of pedestal quasi-coherent mode in Type-I ELMy H-mode of HL-2A tokamak33
Influences of spatial structure of plasma shock wave on electromagnetic wave propagation characteristics32
Role of initial conditions in plasma-current coupling of gas-puff Z-pinches32
Onset of instability with collapse observed in relatively high density and medium beta regions of LHD32
The contribution of femtosecond laser filaments to positive and negative breakdown discharge in a long air gap31
Experimental study on influence of temperature on breakdown in a waveguide cavity30
Generation of bright collimated vortex γ -ray via laser driven cone-fan target30
Long filamentary discharge produced in helium spiral vortex30
Data-driven linear time advance operators for the acceleration of plasma physics simulation30
Self-consistent formation and steady-state characterization of trapped high-energy electron clouds in the presence of a neutral gas background29
Effects of electron viscosity on resonant layer responses to non-axisymmetric magnetic perturbations29
Ion acceleration from the interaction of ultrahigh-intensity laser pulses with near-critical density, nonuniform gas targets28
Nonlinear saturation of whistler modes driven by runaway electrons28
Shear-flow driven ion-acoustic instability in a non-thermal magnetoplasma27
A global model and two-dimensional simulation study of a low-pressure inductively coupled CF4 plasma considering non-Maxwellian EEDF26
Effects of different working parameters on the turbulent drag reduction regulated by annular plasma synthetic jet actuators26
Study on the generation of terahertz waves in collision plasma26
Observation of laser ablation of silicon as a function of pulse length at constant fluence via time-resolved x-ray spectroscopy26
Density drop at the divertor target in the prototype material plasma exposure eXperiment (Proto-MPEX)25
The singlet S-wave resonances of He atom in dense quantum plasmas25
Characterization of self-magnetic pinch (SMP) radiographic diode performance on RITS-6 at Sandia National Laboratories. I. Diode dynamics, DC heating to extend radiation pulse25
Mass spectrometry of clustered flows during gas ionization by low-temperature plasma in the diffuser part of the nozzle24
Driving rotamak currents with minimal power dissipation24
Binary phase separation in strongly coupled plasma24
Dust-acoustic waves in weakly coupled (gaseous) cryogenic dusty plasma24
Influence of reflections on mode-competition processes in a high-power multimode gyrotron24
A Grad-Shafranov model for compact quasisymmetric stellarators24
Effects of the bounded geometry on the ion-acoustic waves24
Theory and simulations of field strengths in magnetosonic shock waves in finite beta plasmas24
Integrated modeling of anisotropic neutron yields of classical and spherical tokamaks23
KrF exciplexes formation in low temperature plasmas created in various gas mixtures23
Similarity for downscaled kinetic simulations of electrostatic plasmas: Reconciling the large system size with small Debye length23
Bayesian optimization of laser wakefield acceleration in the self-modulated regime (SM-LWFA) aiming to produce molybdenum-99 via photonuclear reactions23
Plasma bullet splitting behavior of a positive streamer initiated in an atmospheric pressure argon plasma jet23
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)]23
A computationally efficient fluid model for atmospheric pressure plasma jet simulation using a spherical charge approximation23
A reduced nonlinear model of synergy between wave-particle and wave-wave interactions22
Chapman–Enskog derivation of multicomponent Navier–Stokes equations22
Reviewer acknowledgment for 202422
Reliable charge measurement from configurational temperature analysis22
Theory and simulation of the electrothermal instability in pulsed power electrode plasmas22
Effect of inhomogeneous magnetic field on blue core in Ar helicon plasma21
Fully differential analysis of the electron impact ionization of hydrogen in Debye plasmas20
Models for calculation of the sideways force due to the kink modes in tokamaks20
Method to determine the electron–ion temperature relaxation rate from test particle distributions20
Numerical study of δ-function current sheets arising from resonant magnetic perturbations20
Non-uniformity of the radial electric field for tokamak plasma on the low and the high toroidal magnetic field side20
Platform for probing radiation transport properties of hydrogen at conditions found in the deep interiors of red dwarfs20
Single-mode wave decay19
Effect of overlapping laser beams and density scale length in laser-plasma instability experiments on OMEGA EP19
Methodology for measuring the energy characteristics of two-electrode gas discharge plasma switches in the picosecond range using the reflectometry method19
Dynamics and manipulation of ultrashort laser pulses via plasma shutter19
Analysis of assumption about the possibility of the highly effective scenario of in-flight muon catalyzed fusion19
Simulations of non-integer upconversion in resonant six-wave scattering19
Study on Townsend first ionization coefficient in a streamer filament of the pulsed electric discharge in water19
Three-dimensional crescent-shaped ion velocity distributions created by magnetic reconnection in the presence of a guide field18
Application of mesh refinement to relativistic magnetic reconnection18
Understanding and controlling capsule symmetry in near vacuum hohlraums at the National Ignition Facility18
Photodetachment of H− in non-ideal classical plasmas18
Cross-beam energy transfer in conditions relevant to direct-drive implosions on OMEGA18
Modeling results on the dust charge distribution in a plasma afterglow18
Experimental observations of detached bow shock formation in the interaction of a laser-produced plasma with a magnetized obstacle18
Development of a high performance MagLIF target platform using high aspect ratio coated liners and low-mix laser preheat17
Simulation study of coupled two-stream and current filamentation instability excited by accelerator electron beams in plasmas17
Extended bounce-kinetic model for trapped electron mode turbulence17
Laser measurements of static and dynamic dipole polarizability for 11 metal atoms using fast exploding wires in vacuum and integrated-phase technique17
Nonlinear study of transition modes in the chaotic time series obtained in different negative differential resistance regimes17
Using tabulated NLTE data for Hohlraum simulations17
The dynamics, mixing, and thermonuclear burn of compressed foams with varied gas fills17
Effects of deuterium-tritium mix on linear growth rates of the magnetoacoustic cyclotron instability in fusion plasmas17
Edge plasma relaxations due to diamagnetic stabilization17
A polar direct drive liquid deuterium–tritium wetted foam target concept for inertial confinement fusion17
Threshold target thickness in high-contrast laser-driven ion acceleration17
Reconciling calculations and measurements of inverse bremsstrahlung absorption16
Ion energy distribution function in very high frequency capacitive discharges excited by saw-tooth waveform16
Modeling the electron density distribution of high-enthalpy plasma jets through chemical reaction method16
Quantum computing perspective for electromagnetic wave propagation in cold magnetized plasmas16
Emulation techniques for scenario and classical control design of tokamak plasmas16
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
Numerical investigation of internal plasma currents in a magnetic nozzle16
Intricate structure of the plasma Rayleigh–Taylor instability in shock tubes16
Exploration of polar direct drive wetted foam concepts for neutron sources on the National Ignition Facility laser16
Experimental demonstration of interferometric discharge structure identification of atmospheric millimeter-wave discharge at subcritical conditions using 28 GHz gyrotron16
Electron energization and thermal to non-thermal energy partition during earth's magnetotail reconnection16
High-resolution emission spectroscopy of W I lines: Comparing near-threshold sputtering of mono- and polycrystalline tungsten by Ar ions16
Machine-learned trends in mirror configurations in the large plasma device16
Excitation of cylindrical and spherical precursor solitons in a flowing dusty plasma: Experimental and simulation studies16
Erratum: “Hamiltonian formulation of X-point collapse in an extended magnetohydrodynamics framework” [Phys. Plasmas 31, 102104 (2024)]16
Statistical analysis of high-frequency whistler waves at Earth's bow shock: Further support for stochastic shock drift acceleration16
High-frequency leaky standing sausage and kink mode waves in magnetic slab16
Correlation between gamma photon emission and magnetic islands in laser-driven plasma channel16
Design and analysis of dudded fuel experiments at the National Ignition Facility16
Designing a large area field emitter for uniform electron emission15
Quantum edge plasmon excitations and electron spill-out effect15
Hilbert expansion based fluid models for kinetic equations describing neutral particles in the plasma edge of a fusion device15
Impact of power flow on Z-pinch loads15
N-body plasma simulation of classical and Bohm diffusion employing Kepler's analytical solutions15
Charged-particle transport in high energy density plasmas15
A theoretical explanation of the density of backstreaming ion beams at oblique collisionless shocks15
Kinetic theory of nonrelativistic electron beam–inhomogeneous plasma system instability15
Drift waves and ion temperature gradient instabilities in the large linear device SPEKTRE15
The optimized mathematical treatment on the correct cutoff for integrals with the Rutherford scattering cross section15
Role of the pedestal current on the stability of non-ideal ballooning modes15
Evolution of the electron distribution function during gas ionization by a sub-nanosecond microwave pulse of hundreds MW power15
Electron kinetics near the minimum of Paschen's curves of pulsed breakdown15
Resonant excitation of whistler wave via Cherenkov emission by sweeping radio frequency heated hot spot across the equatorial electrojet15
Magnetic field evolution and reconnection in low resistivity plasmas15
Non-ideal MHD growth of current interchange tearing modes at plasma edge and response to externally-imposed flow15
Collisional-like dissipation in collisionless plasmas15
Anomalous resistivity and electron heating by lower hybrid drift waves inside reconnecting current sheets15
Gyrokinetic simulation of isotope effect on zonal flow response in tokamaks15
Computing the generalized plasma dispersion function for non-Maxwellian plasmas, with applications to Thomson scattering15
Nonlinear excitation of geodesic acoustic mode by drift waves in anisotropic tokamak plasmas with toroidal rotation14
Influence of different kinetic heating mechanisms on the dynamics of a trapped Brownian particle in a complex plasma14
Calculation of tearing mode stability in an inverse aspect-ratio expanded tokamak plasma equilibrium14
Unveiling non-flat profiles within magnetic islands in tokamaks14
Nonlinear evolution, propagation, electron-trapping, and damping effects of ion-acoustic solitons using fully kinetic PIC simulations14
Hydrodynamic instabilities in a highly radiative environment14
Relativistic Maxwellian mixture model14
Mechanisms of shape transfer and preheating in indirect-drive double shell collisions14
Verification of a fully kinetic ion model for electromagnetic simulations of high-frequency waves in toroidal geometry14
Self-generated magnetic field in laser plasma with super-Gaussian distributed electrons14
A foreword to the special issue: Proceedings of PLASMA 2023—International Conference on Research and Applications of Plasmas14
Self-generated magnetic field in ablative Rayleigh–Taylor instability14
Characterization of sub-picosecond laser-produced fast electrons by modeling angularly resolved bremsstrahlung measurements with 3D hybrid particle-in-cell code14
Effect of particle mass inhomogeneity on the two-dimensional Rayleigh–Bénard system of Yukawa liquids: A molecular dynamics study14
Linear ion-scale microstability analysis of high and low-collisionality NSTX discharges and NSTX-U projections14
Erratum: “Correlation between the relative blob fraction and plasma parameters in NSTX” [Phys. Plasmas 29, 012505 (2022)]14
On the collisional damping of plasma velocity space instabilities14
An experimental study of the existence regions and non-linear interactions of drift wave and Kelvin–Helmholtz instabilities in a linear magnetized plasma14
ICF target optimization using generative AI14
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
Laboratory study of Kelvin–Helmholtz instability at ion kinetic scales14
Head-on collision of large-scale high density plasmas jets: A first-principle kinetic simulation approach13
Plasma dynamics and collisional magnetic presheath structure in unmagnetized divertor plasma in fusion devices13
Identification of stimulated Raman side scattering in near-spherical coronal plasmas on OMEGA EP13
Potential development and electron energy confinement in an expanding magnetic field divertor geometry13
Some aspects of the plasma potential in 3D simulation of ECRIS operation13
Matter transport as fundamental property of acoustic solitons in plasma13
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
Excitation of ion acoustic collisionless shock by a moving obstacle13
Investigation of collision effects on ion dynamics in the presheath and sheath of weakly collisional and magnetized hydrogen plasmas13
Two-stream instability with a growth rate insensitive to collisions in a dissipative plasma jet13
Augmenting machine learning of Grad–Shafranov equilibrium reconstruction with Green's functions13
Confinement of intense proton beams by an applied axial magnetic field in large-scale plasma13
Super-Fermi acceleration in multiscale MHD reconnection13
Numerical study of the suppression of magnetic reconnection onset with injected plasma13
Long-wavelength electromagnetic waves of surface type in circular metal waveguides partially filled by plasma in presence of an axial static magnetic field13
Highly efficient superradiant oscillator with front-extraction output in TE11 mode operating at low magnetic field13
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
Particle dynamics in dusty plasma: Classical tunneling13
Experimental studies of a novel one-dimensional plasma window13
Hysteresis control using a DC magnetic field in an argon inductively coupled plasma13
StyleGAN as an AI deconvolution operator for large eddy simulations of turbulent plasma equations in BOUT++13
Collisional space-charge-limited current with monoenergetic velocity: From Child–Langmuir to Mott–Gurney13
Generation of the high power by a coaxial dielectric barrier discharge with a perforated electrode in atmospheric pressure air12
A Raman quantum free-electron laser model12
Developing characteristics of the positive streamer in water with microsecond pulse voltage12
Multi-pass cell spectral broadening at high pulse energies12
Erratum: Nonequilibrium two-fluid plasmas can generate magnetic fields and flows simultaneously [Phys. Plasmas 17, 092102 (2010)]12
A square superlattice pattern formed through complex interactions among volume discharges and surface discharge in dielectric barrier discharge12
Toward electron temperature profiles in hot-dense plasmas from x-ray spectral ensembles12
Theoretical calculation and particle-in-cell simulation of a multi-mode relativistic backward wave oscillator operating at low magnetic field12
Anomalous transport of multi-species edge plasma with the generalized Hasegawa–Wakatani model and the FLR effects12
Why is there no generally accepted theory of the plasma-sheath transition and the Bohm criterion?12
Dust acoustic solitons in a positively charged dust plasma with regularized-κ distributed electrons in the presence of generalized polarization force12
KdV equation for kinetic Alfvén waves and ionospheric solitons12
Estimates of global recycling coefficients for LTX-β discharges12
Study of radiative shocks using 2D interferometry and XUV spectroscopy12
Assessing physics of ion temperature gradient turbulence via hierarchical reduced-model representations12
Effect of collisions on non-adiabatic electron dynamics in ITG-driven microturbulence12
DC electric field generation and distribution in magnetized plasmas12
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
Effects of thermal instability on density limit disruption in J-TEXT12
A divergence-free constrained magnetic field interpolation method for scattered data12
Self-absorption of emission lines in picosecond-laser-produced gold plasmas12
Self-organized magnetic equilibria in tokamak plasmas with very low edge safety factor12
Fostering connection: Principles and practices for well-designed public engagement in physics12
General kinetic ion-induced electron emission model for metallic walls applied to biased Z-pinch electrodes12
Unexpected energetic particle observations near the Sun by Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter12
Generation of powerful soft x-ray pulses with nanosecond increase of megaampere current through a metal rod12
The effect of pellet injection on turbulent transport in TJ-II12
Simplified derivation of the Kompaneets equation12
How to evaluate neoclassical transport coefficients by a single δf simulation12
Analysis of the nonlinear dynamics of a chirping-frequency Alfvén mode in a tokamak equilibrium12
The impact of accelerating diode resonances on L-band high-power long-pulse relativistic backward wave oscillator operation12
Mixed species ionospheric aerodynamics: Effects of charge and mass density variations12
Global gyrokinetic simulation for toroidal impurity mode turbulence12
3D tracking of particles in a dusty plasma by laser sheet tomography12
Reactive molecular dynamics simulations on interaction mechanisms of cold atmospheric plasmas and peptides12
Alfvén wave generation and electron energization in the KiNET-X sounding rocket mission11
A ReaxFF molecular dynamics study of insulation paper modification by plasma ROS11
Influence of anomalous perpendicular transport on linear tearing mode dynamics in tokamak plasmas11
Density reconstruction in convergent high-energy-density systems using x-ray radiography and Bayesian inference11
Confinement controlled dynamical structural rearrangement in a quasi-2D dusty plasma crystal11
Spatially resolved measurements of plasma ion velocity distributions in a dipole magnetic field11
Linear gyrokinetic theory of two-dimensional ion-temperature-gradient mode in tokamaks11
The effect of dust on the propagation of a hydromagnetic solitary wave along the magnetic field in a cold collision-free plasma11
Investigation on anode modes of vacuum arc under different contact opening speeds11
Local momentum balance in electromagnetic gyrokinetic systems11
Reversed Cherenkov radiation amplifier with compact structure and high efficiency11
Effects of magnetic field on the secondary electron asymmetry effect in capacitively coupled plasmas11
The conversion efficiency of terahertz radiation produced by the filamentation of two femtosecond laser beams in highly charged noble gases11
Plasma electron spectroscopy in short glow discharge for registration of vapors and decomposition products of crystalline salts11
Role of hot electrons in mitigating ablative Rayleigh–Taylor instability11
Multi-scale evolution of Kelvin–Helmholtz waves at the Earth's magnetopause during southward IMF periods11
Helium and hydrogen gas ionization by a sub-nanosecond high-power microwave pulse11
Drag exerted by drift-acoustic radiation on a magnetic island11
Quadrupolar density structures in driven magnetic reconnection experiments with a guide field11
Nonlinear coupling of tearing modes in reversed field pinch plasmas with stepped pressure profiles11
Modulation of electron precipitation regulated by electron injection: PIC simulations11
Magnetohydrodynamic features and particle transport during thermal quench in HL-2A with density source11
Plasma heating characterization of the large area inductively coupled plasma etchers with the plasma information for managing the mass production11
A dynamo effect of multiple tearing modes on Taylor relaxation11
Analysis of three-dimensional time-varying characteristics of subsonic plasma jet11
Symmetry and structure in the “Generalized Plasma Focus problem”11
Kinetic Landau-fluid closures of non-Maxwellian distributions11
Reviewer acknowledgment for 202111
Spatio-temporal evolution of a nanosecond laser produced Zn plasma11
Erratum: “Study of cathode emission surface defects in relativistic magnetrons” [Phys. Plasmas 31, 023502 (2024)]11
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
Limit cycle oscillations in the zonal-flow-catalyzed interactions of ion-temperature-gradient turbulence11
Experiments and modeling of dust particle heating resulting from changes in polarity switching in the PK-4 microgravity laboratory11
Enhancement of the conversion efficiency of soft x-ray by colliding gold plasmas11
Hunting for sources of variability in laser-proton acceleration with thin foils11
Femtosecond laser-induced sub-wavelength plasma inside dielectrics: I. Field enhancement11
On the mechanism of density peak at low magnetic field in argon helicon plasmas11
Experimental research on a novel C-band compact transit-time oscillator with low guiding magnetic field11
Plasma-resonance-assisted filament in a high-pressure microwave discharge11
Announcement: The 2024 Ronald C. Davidson award for plasma physics10
Electron trapping in gyrotron electron guns: Validation of the FENNECS code with the T-REX experiment10
Transient characteristic analysis of dual-frequency dielectric barrier discharge based on numerical simulation10
Attempt of generating dual x-ray pulses for flash radiography on a 4-MV IVA accelerator10
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