$\mathtt{Entity}$ -- Hardware-agnostic Particle-in-Cell Code for Plasma Astrophysics. II: General Relativistic Module
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2025-11-25 v1
Abstract
Black hole environments often host plasmas that are fully collisionless or contain intrinsically collisionless regions, including relativistic jets and coronae where particle energization is ubiquitous. Capturing the physics of these systems requires numerical methods capable of modeling relativistic, magnetized, collisionless plasmas in strong gravitational fields. In this work, we introduce the general-relativistic module for the Entity -- the first open-source, coordinate-agnostic performance-portable particle-in-cell code. The code enables fast axisymmetric simulations of collisionless plasmas around black holes on any modern high-performance computing architecture (both GPUs and CPUs).
Cite
@article{arxiv.2511.17701,
title = {$\mathtt{Entity}$ -- Hardware-agnostic Particle-in-Cell Code for Plasma Astrophysics. II: General Relativistic Module},
author = {Alisa Galishnikova and Hayk Hakobyan and Alexander Philippov and Benjamin Crinquand},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.17701},
year = {2025}
}
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22 pages, 5 figures, 1 table