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In this paper we present EPIC, an efficient and effective predictor for IC manufacturing hotspots in deep sub-wavelength lithography. EPIC proposes a unified framework to combine different hotspot detection methods together, such as machine…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2014-02-13 Duo Ding , Bei Yu , Joydeep Ghosh , David Z. Pan

The particle-in-cell (PIC) method is a well-established and widely used kinetic plasma modelling approach that provides a hybrid Lagrangian-Eulerian approach to solve the plasma kinetic equation. Despite its power in capturing details of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-11-11 Maryam Reza , Farbod Faraji , Aaron Knoll

For simulating laser-plasma interactions, we developed a parallel, multi-dimensional, fully relativistically particle-in-cell (PIC) code, named YUNIC. The core algorithm is introduced, including field solver, particle pusher, field…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-02 Huai-Hang Song , Wei-Min Wang , Yu-Tong Li

Under the presence of ultra high intensity lasers or other intense electromagnetic fields the motion of particles in the ultrarelativistic regime can be severely affected by radiation reaction. The standard particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithms…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-04-19 Marija Vranic , Joana L. Martins , Ricardo A. Fonseca , Luis O. Silva

Particle-in-cell codes are the most widely used simulation tools for kinetic studies of ultra-intense laser-plasma interactions. Using the motion of a single electron in a plane electromagnetic wave as a benchmark problem, we show…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Kavin Tangtartharakul , Guangye Chen , Alexey Arefiev

Efficient simulation of complex plasma dynamics is crucial for advancing fusion energy research. Particle-in-Cell (PIC) Monte Carlo (MC) simulations provide insights into plasma behavior, including turbulence and confinement, which are…

Based on the particle-in-cell (PIC) plasma simulation method, the speed-limited PIC (SLPIC) method delivers faster kinetic plasma simulation in cases where the particle distributions evolve slowly compared with the maximum stable PIC…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Gregory R. Werner , Thomas G. Jenkins , Andrew M. Chap , John R. Cary

Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations are fundamental to plasma physics but often suffer from limited scalability due to particle-grid interaction bottlenecks and particle redistribution costs. Specifically, the particle-grid interaction…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Yizhuo Rao , Xingjian Cui , Shangzhi Pang , Jiabin Xie , Guangnan Feng , Jinhui Wei , Ziyan Zhang , Languang Gao , Zhenyu Wang , Zhiguang Chen , Yutong Lu

Coherent optics has profoundly impacted diverse applications ranging from communications, LiDAR to quantum computations. However, building coherent systems in integrated photonics previously came at great expense in hardware integration and…

We describe a new electrostatic Particle-In-Cell (PIC) code in curvilinear geometry called Curvilinear PIC (CPIC). The code models the microscopic (kinetic) evolution of a plasma with the PIC method, coupled with an adaptive computational…

Accurate and fast simulation of particle physics processes is crucial for the high-energy physics community. Simulating particle interactions with detectors is both time consuming and computationally expensive. With the proton-proton…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-08-26 Ali Hariri , Darya Dyachkova , Sergei Gleyzer

A simulation package employing a Particle in Cell (PIC) method is developed to study the high current beam transport and the dynamics of plasmas. This package includes subroutines those are suited for various planned projects at University…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-06-21 N. Joshi

The dissipation mechanism of the magnetic energy in turbulent collisionless space and astrophysical plasmas is still not well understood. Its investigation requires efficient kinetic simulations of the energy transfer in collisionless…

A novel efficient scheme of acceleration and collimation of dense plasma is proposed and examined. In the proposed scheme, a target placed in a cavity at the entrance of a guiding channel is irradiated by a laser beam introduced into the…

Here we report the development of SPRAY, a massively parallel GPU accelerated, smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH)-based, radiation hydrodynamics (RHD) code designed specifically for simulating high intensity laser-plasma interactions.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Min Ki Jung , Hakhyeon Kim , Su-San Park , Eung Soo Kim , Yong-Su Na , Sang June Hahn

Author developed the parallel fully kinetic particle-in-cell (PIC) code JPIC based on updated and advanced algorithms (e.g. numerical-dispersion-free electromagnetic field solver) for simulating laser plasma interactions. Basic technical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-04-19 Hui-Chun Wu

Precision spectroscopy of atomic systems is an invaluable tool for the advancement of our understanding of fundamental interactions and symmetries. Recently, highly charged ions (HCI) have been proposed for sensitive tests of physics beyond…

Compact, stable, and versatile laser-driven ion sources hold great promise for applications ranging from medicine to materials science and fundamental physics. While single-shot sources have demonstrated favorable beam properties, including…

We study parallel particle-in-cell (PIC) methods for low-temperature plasmas (LTPs), which discretize kinetic formulations that capture the time evolution of the probability density function of particles as a function of position and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-08-12 James Almgren-Bell , Nader Al Awar , Dilip S Geethakrishnan , Milos Gligoric , George Biros

Ion cyclotron resonance energization (ICRE) such as ion cyclotron resonance heating (ICRH) is widely applied to magnetic confinement fusion and high-power electric propulsion. Since ICRE involves cyclotron resonance processes, a kinetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 Mingyang Wu , Andong Xu , Chijie Xiao