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Reduced-order particle-in-cell (PIC) scheme is a novel modeling approach that enables computationally efficient electrostatic kinetic simulations of plasma. In our previous publications, we demonstrated the potentials of a preliminary…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-08-30 Maryam Reza , Farbod Faraji , Aaron Knoll

We develop an algorithm for bosonic path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) simulations with periodic boundary conditions (PBC) that scales quadratically with the number of particles. Path integral methods are a powerful tool to simulate…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Jacob Higer , Yotam M. Y. Feldman , Barak Hirshberg

The particle-in-cell approach has proven effective at modeling neutron star and black hole magnetospheres from first principles, but global simulations are plagued with an unrealistically small separation between the scales where…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-09 Adrien Soudais , Benoît Cerutti , Ioannis Contopoulos

The rapid development of AI highlights the pressing need for sustainable energy, a critical global challenge for decades. Nuclear fusion, generally seen as an ultimate solution, has been the focus of intensive research for nearly a century,…

Perfectly-Matched Layers (PML) are widely used in Particle-In-Cell simulations, in order to absorb electromagnetic waves that propagate out of the simulation domain. However, when charged particles cross the interface between the simulation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-09-02 Remi Lehe , Aurore Blelly , Lorenzo Giacomel , Revathi Jambunathan , Jean-Luc Vay

In low-temperature high-density plasmas quantum effects of the electrons are becoming increasingly important. This requires the development of new theoretical and computational tools. Quantum Monte Carlo methods are among the most…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-08-12 T. Schoof , S. Groth , M. Bonitz

When supersonic plasma flows collide, many physical processes contribute to the morphology of the resulting shock. One of these processes is the acceleration of non-thermal ions, which will, eventually, reach relativistic speeds and become…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-16 Allard Jan van Marle

Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations with Monte-Carlo collisions are used in plasma science to explore a variety of kinetic effects. One major problem is the long run-time of such simulations. Even on modern computer systems, PIC codes take a…

This paper presents a novel 3-D full electromagnetic particle-in-cell (PIC) code called JefiPIC, which uses Jefimenko's equations as the electromagnetic (EM) field solver through a full-space integration method. Leveraging the power of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Jiannan Chen , Jun-Jie Zhang , Xueming Li , Hai-Liang Qiao , Yongtao Zhao

Particle-in-cell with Monte Carlo collisions (PIC/MCC) is a fully kinetic, particle based numerical simulation method with increasing popularity in the field of low temperature gas discharge physics. Already in its simplest form…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 Mate Vass , Peter Palla , Peter Hartmann

In a uniform radio-frequency (RF) plasma between a large electrode pair, the addition of an axial magnetic field induces diverse longitudinal filaments. To reveal its pattern dynamics, we conduct two-dimensional (2D) Particle-In-Cell (PIC)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Huidong Huang , Jian Chen , Zhibin Wang

We present and compare distributed parallelization strategies for the particle-in-Fourier (PIF) schemes used in kinetic plasma simulations. The different strategies are i) domain decomposition, where both the particles and Fourier modes are…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Sriramkrishnan Muralikrishnan , Paul Fischill , Andreas Adelmann , Robert Speck

We discuss the scalable parallel solution of the Poisson equation within a Particle-In-Cell (PIC) code for the simulation of electron beams in particle accelerators of irregular shape. The problem is discretized by Finite Differences.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-04-21 A. Adelmann , P. Arbenz , Y. Ineichen

Domain adaptation algorithms are useful when the distributions of the training and the test data are different. In this paper, we focus on the problem of instrumental variation and time-varying drift in the field of sensors and measurement,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Ke Yan , Lu Kou , David Zhang

This paper explores the time-domain equations of noble metals, in which Drude model is adopted to describe the dielectric constant, to implement three-dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations for the surface plasmon excitation with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 La-Qun Liu , Gui-Lian Zhao , Hui-Hui Wang , Da-Gang Liu

The particle-in-cell (PIC) method is widely used to model the self-consistent interaction between discrete particles and electromagnetic fields. It has been successfully applied to problems across plasma physics including plasma based…

We devise and explore an iterative optimization procedure for controlling particle populations in particle-in-cell (PIC) codes via merging and splitting of computational macro-particles. Our approach, is to compute an optimal representation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-01 J. Trier Frederiksen , G. Lapenta , M. E. Pessah

Advances in ultra-intense laser technology are enabling, for the first time, relativistic intensities at mid-infrared (mid-IR) wavelengths. Anticipating further experimental research in this domain, we present high-resolution two…

We present a scheme to solve the nonlinear multigroup radiation diffusion (MGD) equations. The method is incorporated into a massively parallel, multidimensional, Eulerian radiation-hydrodynamic code with adaptive mesh refinement (AMR). The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. I. Shestakov , S. S. R. Offner

We perform extensive 2D Particle-In-Cell (PIC) electromagnetic simulations of low pressure Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) discharges with various coil current and driving frequencies. Our simulations show that in low-frequency cases,…