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In many problems involving particle accelerators and relativistic plasmas, the accurate modeling of relativistic particle motion is essential for accurate physical predictions. Here, we extend a charge-conserving finite element time-domain…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 D. Y. Na , H. Moon , Y. A. Omelchenko , F. L. Teixeira

We propose a new approach to high-intensity relativistic laser-driven electron acceleration in a plasma. Here, we demonstrate that a plasma wave generated by a stimulated forward-scattering of an incident laser pulse can be in the longest…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 S. P. Sadykova , A. Rukhadze , T. G. Samkharadze

Laser-plasma accelerators outperform current radiofrequency technology in acceleration strength by orders of magnitude. Yet, enabling them to deliver competitive beam quality for demanding applications, particularly in terms of energy…

Plasma injection schemes are crucial for producing high-quality electron beams in laser-plasma accelerators. This article introduces the general concepts of plasma injection. First, a Hamiltonian model for particle trapping and acceleration…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 J. Faure

Plasma-Based Acceleration (PBA) has been demonstrated using laser, electron, and proton drivers. However, significant challenges remain in achieving high efficiency, stable acceleration, and scalable energy gain. Heavy ion beam drivers,…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Jiangdong Li , Jiancheng Yang , Guoxing Xia , Jie Liu , Ruihu Zhu , Xiangwen Qiao

Research activities on laser plasma accelerators are paved by many significant breakthroughs. This review article provides an opportunity to show the incredible evolution of this field of research which has, in record time, allowed…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-12-22 V. Malka

We develop several algorithms for performing quantum phase estimation based on basic measurements and classical post-processing. We present a pedagogical review of quantum phase estimation and simulate the algorithm to numerically determine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-30 Krysta M. Svore , Matthew B. Hastings , Michael Freedman

Phase space matching between two plasma-accelerator (PA) stages and between a PA and a traditional accelerator component is a critical issue for emittance preservation of beams accelerated by PAs. The drastic differences of the transverse…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 X. L. Xu , Y. P. Wu , C. J. Zhang , F. Li , Y. Wan , J. F. Hua , C. -H. Pai , W. Lu , P. Yu , W. An , W. B. Mori , M. J. Hogan , C. Joshi

Classical molecular dynamics simulation is performed mostly using the established velocity Verlet integrator or other symplectic propagation schemes. In this work, an alternative formulation of numerical propagators for classical molecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Ivan Kondov

We investigate a new sampling scheme aimed at improving the performance of particle filters whenever (a) there is a significant mismatch between the assumed model dynamics and the actual system, or (b) the posterior probability tends to…

Computation · Statistics 2019-03-20 Ömer Deniz Akyıldız , Joaquín Míguez

Numerical simulations of plasma flows are crucial for advancing our understanding of microscopic processes that drive the global plasma dynamics in fusion devices, space, and astrophysical systems. Identifying and classifying particle…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-13 Stefano Markidis , Ivy Peng , Artur Podobas , Itthinat Jongsuebchoke , Gabriel Bengtsson , Pawel Herman

Experimental results, supported by precise modelling, demonstrate optimisation of a plasma-based injector with intermediate laser pulse energy ($<1$ J), corresponding to a normalised vector potential $a_0 = 2.15$, using ionisation injection…

The simultaneous laser-driven acceleration and angular manipulation of the fast electron beam is experimentally demonstrated. The bunch of multi-MeV energy charged particles is generated during the propagation of the femtosecond laser pulse…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-19 K. Ivanov , D. Gorlova , I. Tsymbalov , I. Tsygvintsev , S. Shulyapov , R. Volkov , A. Savelev

Using the Magnus expansion to the fourth order, we obtain analytic expressions for the atomic state of a two-level system driven by a laser pulse of arbitrary shape with small pulse area. We also determine the limitation of our obtained…

Laser-driven ion acceleration provides ultra-short, high-charge, low-emittance beams, which are desirable for a wide range of high-impact applications. Yet after decades of research, a significant increase in maximum ion energy is still…

A recent reformulation [1] of the problem of Coulomb gases in the presence of a dynamical dielectric medium showed that finite temperature simulations of such systems can be accomplished on the basis of completely local Hamiltonians on a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Duncan , R. D. Sedgewick

A new scheme for accelerating positively charged particles in a plasma wakefield accelerator is proposed. If the proton drive beam propagates in a hollow plasma channel, and the beam radius is of order of the channel width, the space charge…

Numerical modeling of electromagnetic waves is an important tool for understanding the interaction of light and matter, and lies at the core of computational electromagnetics. Traditional approaches to injecting and evolving electromagnetic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 K. Weichman , K. G. Miller , B. Malaca , W. B. Mori , J. R. Pierce , D. Ramsey , J. Vieira , M. Vranic , J. P. Palastro

Particle smoothers are widely used algorithms allowing to approximate the smoothing distribution in hidden Markov models. Existing algorithms often suffer from slow computational time or degeneracy. We propose in this paper a way to improve…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-07-28 Cyrille Dubarry , Randal Douc

This paper introduces the {\it particle swarm filter} (not to be confused with particle swarm optimization): a recursive and embarrassingly parallel algorithm that targets an approximation to the sequence of posterior predictive…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-02-16 Taylor R. Brown