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Numerical Cherenkov radiation (NCR) or instability is a detrimental effect frequently found in electromagnetic particle-in-cell (EM-PIC) simulations involving relativistic plasma beams. NCR is caused by spurious coupling between…

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A novel symplectic algorithm is proposed to solve the Maxwell-Schr\"odinger (M-S) system for investigating light-matter interaction. Using the fourth-order symplectic integration and fourth-order collocated differences,…

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