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We present the Photon-Plasma code, a modern high order charge conserving particle-in-cell code for simulating relativistic plasmas. The code is using a high order implicit field solver and a novel high order charge conserving interpolation…

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We revisit the Scovel-Weinstein framework (Scovel & Weinstein, CPAM 1994) for reducing the Vlasov-Poisson system while preserving its Hamiltonian structure. Standard particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithms approximate the distribution function by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Mandela B. Quashie , J. W. Burby , Andrew J. Christlieb , Qi Tang

Optimizing iPIC3D, an implicit Particle-in-Cell (PIC) code, for large-scale 3D plasma simulations is crucial for space and astrophysical applications. This work focuses on characterizing iPIC3D's communication efficiency through strategic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Jeremy J. Williams , Daniel Medeiros , Ivy B. Peng , Stefano Markidis

The traditional explicit electrostatic momentum-conserving Particle-in-cell algorithm requires strict resolution of the electron Debye length to deliver numerical accuracy. The explicit electrostatic energy-conserving Particle-in-Cell…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-31 Andrew T. Powis , Igor D. Kaganovich

Super B factories that will further probe the flavor sector of the Standard Model and physics beyond will demand excellent charged particle identification (PID), particularly K/pi separation, for momenta up to 4 GeV/c, as well as the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-11-20 K. Nishimura , T. Browder , H. Hoedlmoser , B. Jacobson , J. Kennedy , M. Rosen , L. Ruckman , G. Varner , A. Wong , W. Yen

A new spectral particle-in-cell (PIC) method for plasma modeling is presented and discussed. In the proposed scheme, the Fourier-Bessel transform is used to translate the Maxwell equations to the quasi-cylindrical spectral domain. In this…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-08-17 Igor A. Andriyash , Remi Lehe , Agustin Lifschitz

A recent proof-of-principle study proposes a nonlinear electrostatic implicit particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithm in one dimension (Chen, Chacon, Barnes, J. Comput. Phys. 230 (2011) 7018). The algorithm employs a kinetically enslaved…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Guangye Chen , Luis Chacon

Mega-pixel charge-integrating detectors are common in near-IR imaging applications. Optimal signal-to-noise ratio estimates of the photocurrents, which are particularly important in the low-signal regime, are produced by fitting linear…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-16 Michael Zemcov , Brendan Crill , Matthew Ryan , Zak Staniszewski

We have obtained an electromagnetic PIC (EM-PIC) algorithm based on time-space-extended particle in cell model. In this model particles are shaped objects extended over time and space around Lagrangian markers. Sources carried by these…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-09-09 J. Yazdanpanah

The purpose of this paper is to propose a time-step-robust cell-to-cell integration of particle trajectories in 3-D unstructured meshes in particle/mesh Lagrangian stochastic methods. The main idea is to dynamically update the mean fields…

Computation · Statistics 2023-04-19 Guilhem Balvet , Jean-Pierre Minier , Christophe Henry , Yelva Roustan , Martin Ferrand

The characterization of plasma wakefield acceleration experiments using emitted photons from betatron radiation requires numerical models in support of instrumentation of single-shot, double-differential angular-energy spectra. Precision…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-03-09 M. Yadav , C. Hansel , B. Naranjo , G. Andonian , P. Manwani , O. Apsimon , C. P. Welsch , J. B. Rosenzweig

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

We report a new particle in cell (PIC) method based on the semi-implicit approach. The novelty of the new method is that unlike any of its semi-implicit predecessors at the same time retains the explicit computational cycle and conserves…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Giovanni Lapenta

Modern particle-in-cell (PIC) codes have become an integral tool in plasma astrophysics. As most plasma phenomena grow from initially small instabilities, it is important to ensure PIC codes can suppress noise and ensure that any growing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-18 Ludwig M. Böss , Arno Vanthieghem , Hayk Hakobyan , Evgeny A. Gorbunov , Damiano Caprioli

An efficient numerical algorithm for the laser driven multi-level ionization of high-atomic-number gases is proposed and implemented in an electromagnetic particle-in-cell code SPACE. The algorithm is based on analytical solutions to the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Aiqi Cheng , Roman Samulyak

Large-scale simulations of plasmas are essential for advancing our understanding of fusion devices, space, and astrophysical systems. Particle-in-Cell (PIC) codes have demonstrated their success in simulating numerous plasma phenomena on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Steven W. D. Chien , Jonas Nylund , Gabriel Bengtsson , Ivy B. Peng , Artur Podobas , Stefano Markidis

Particle-In-Cell (PIC) codes are broadly applied to the kinetic simulation of plasmas, from laser-matter interaction to astrophysics. Their heavy simulation cost can be mitigated by using the Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)…

We present a geometric Particle-in-Cell (PIC) algorithm on two-dimensional (2D) unstructured meshes for studying electrostatic perturbations in magnetized plasmas. In this method, ions are treated as fully kinetic particles, and electrons…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Zhenyu Wang , Hong Qin , Benjamin Sturdevant , C. S. Chang

The numerical solution of high dimensional Vlasov equation is usually performed by particle-in-cell (PIC) methods. However, due to the well-known numerical noise, it is challenging to use PIC methods to get a precise description of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-20 Bei Wang , Greg Miller , Phil Colella

A novel electromagnetic particle-in-cell algorithm has been developed for fully kinetic plasma simulations on unstructured (irregular) meshes in complex body-of-revolution geometries. The algorithm, implemented in the BORPIC++ code,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-16 Dong-Yeop Na , Fernando L. Teixeira , Yuri A. Omelchenko