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We study optical spectra of finite electronic quantum systems at frequencies smaller than the plasma frequency using a quasi-classical approach. This approach includes collective effects and enables us to analyze how the nature of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Santer , B. Mehlig

We propose a scheme to mapping electromagnetic fields structure in plasma by using a spin polarized relativistic electron beam. Especially by using Particle-in-Cell (PIC) and electron spin tracing simulations, we have successfully…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-07-02 X. Y. An M. Chen , J. X. Li , S. M. Weng , F. He , Z. M. Sheng , J. Zhang

Cosmic-ray acceleration processes in astrophysical plasmas are often investigated with fully-kinetic or hybrid kinetic numerical simulations, which enable us to describe a detailed microphysics of particle energization mechanisms. Tracing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-12 Gabriel Torralba Paz , Artem Bohdan , Jacek Niemiec

Radiofrequency capacitively coupled plasma is studied theoretically using a Particle-in-Cell code. For He discharge, the time-averaged sheaths are in the range of few centimeters. The sheath potential, ion, and electron energy and angular…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-09-29 M. Shihab , A. Elbadawy , M. S. Afify , N. El-Siragy

In this paper, electromagnetic emissions produced by a beam-plasma system are investigated using particle-in-cell simulations for the particular case when the typical transverse size of both 100 keV electron beam and produced plasma channel…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 V. V. Annenkov , I. V. Timofeev , E. P. Volchok

We propose a novel scheme for frequency-tunable sub-cycle electromagnetic pulse generation. To this end a pump electron beam is injected into an electromagnetic seed pulse as the latter is reflected by a mirror. The electron beam is shown…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Illia Thiele , Evangelos Siminos , Tünde Fülöp

This paper discusses temporally continuous and discrete forms of the speed-limited particle-in-cell (SLPIC) method first treated by Werner et al. [Phys. Plasmas 25, 123512 (2018)]. The dispersion relation for a 1D1V electrostatic plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-08-31 Thomas G. Jenkins , Gregory R. Werner , John R. Cary

Particle acceleration in collisionless plasma systems is a central question in astroplasma and astroparticle physics. The structure of the acceleration regions, electron-ion energy equilibration, preacceleration of particles at shocks to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-19 Martin Pohl , Masahiro Hoshino , Jacek Niemiec

An independent control of the flux and energy of ions impacting on an object immersed in a plasma is often desirable for many industrial processes such as microelectronics manufacturing. We demonstrate that a simultaneous control of these…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Sarveshwar Sharma , Igor Kaganovich , Alexander Khrabrov , Predhiman Kaw , Abhijit Sen

The low-frequency electric microfield distribution in a Coulomb plasma is calculated for various plasma parameters, from weak to strong Coulomb coupling and from zero to strong electron screening. Two methods of numerical calculations are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Y. Potekhin , G. Chabrier , D. Gilles

In this dissertation, a fully object-oriented, fully relativistic, multi-dimensional Particle-In-Cell code was developed and applied to answer key questions in plasma-based accelerator research. The simulations increase the understanding of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-03-03 Roy G. Hemker

Particle in cell simulations are widely used in most fields of physics to investigate known and new phenomena which cannot be directly observed or measured yet. However, the computational and time resources needed for PICs make them…

Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulation codes have wide applicability to first-principles modeling of multidimensional nonlinear plasma phenomena, including wake-field accelerators. This review addresses both finite difference and pseudo-spectral…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-08-07 Brendan B. Godfrey

The problem of electromagnetic emission generation in plasma with electron beams is relevant both for practical applications and for interpretation of radio emission processes in astrophysical systems. In this work, we consider the case of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Vladimir Annenkov , Evgeniia Volchok , Igor Timofeev

The statistical properties of ions in two-dimensional fully developed turbulence have been compared between two different numerical algorithms. In particular, we compare Hybrid Particle In Cell (hybrid PIC with fluid electrons) and full PIC…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Francesco Pecora , Francesco Pucci , Giovanni Lapenta , David Burgess , Sergio Servidio

The Particle-In-Cell (PIC) method for plasma simulation tracks particle phase space information using particle and grid data structures. High computational costs in 2D and 3D device-scale PIC simulations necessitate parallelization, with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Libn Varghese , Bhaskar Chaudhury , Miral Shah , Mainak Bandyopadhyay

Aims. The simulation of three-wave interaction based plasma emission, thought to be the underlying mechanism for Type III solar radio bursts, is a challenging task requiring fully-kinetic, multi-dimensional models. This paper aims to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-02 J. O. Thurgood , D. Tsiklauri

We derive the kinetic theory of fluctuations in physically and numerically stable particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of electrostatic plasmas. The starting point is the single-time correlations at the simulation start between the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-09-13 Michael Touati , Romain Codur , Frank Tsung , Viktor K Decyk , Warren B Mori , Luis O Silva

A new experimental technique for investigating characteristics of plasma generated with plasmotrons in electrophysical installations was proposed. The technique involves a simultaneous registration of both radiation spectra and images of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Yu. Khomich , I. I. Kumkova , Yu. A. Zheleznov

In this work, we propose to use the Reduced-Basis Method (RBM) as a model order reduction approach to solve Maxwell's equations in electromagnetic (EM) scatterers based on plasma to build a metasurface, taking into account a parameter,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-10-16 Clara Iglesias-Tesouro , Valentin de la Rubia , Alessio Monti , Filiberto Bilotti