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Volume 10,

Issue 2,

March 2025

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Matter and Radiation at Extremes is committed to the publication of original research and comprehensive and in-depth review papers in all areas of experimental and theoretical physics on matter and radiation at extremes. MRE aims to provide a peer-reviewed Open-Access platform for the international physics community and promote worldwide dissemination of the latest and best research in related fields.

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Weiyan Zhang (张维岩)
Michel Koenig
Hokwang Mao (毛河光)

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| March 14 2025

Commissioning of the 1 PW experimental area at ELI-NP using a short focal parabolic mirror for proton acceleration

M. O. Cernaianu, P. Ghenuche et al.

High-power laser systems have opened new frontiers in scientific research and have revolutionized various scientific fields, offering unprecedented capabilities for understanding fundamental physics ...

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| March 14 2025

Advances in high-pressure materials discovery enabled by machine learning

Zhenyu Wang, Xiaoshan Luo et al.

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) is a foundational computational technique for determining the atomic arrangements of crystalline materials, especially under high-pressure conditions. While CSP ...

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| March 06 2025

Currents from relativistic laser-plasma interaction as a novel metrology for the system stability of high-repetition-rate laser secondary sources

Michael Ehret, Iuliana-Mariana Vladisavlevici et al.

This work demonstrates experimentally the close relation between return currents from relativistic laser-driven target polarization and the quality of the relativistic laser–plasma interaction for ...

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| February 10 2025

Diagnosis of focal spots at relativistic intensity utilizing coherent radiation from laser-driven flying electron sheets

Shirui Xu, Zhuo Pan et al.

Experimental validation of laser intensity is particularly important for the study of fundamental physics at extremely high intensities. However, reliable diagnosis of the focal spot and peak ...

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| December 23 2024

Synthesis of lutetium hydrides at high pressures

Yuan-Ao Peng, Han-Yu Wang et al.

High-pressure synthesis of lutetium hydrides from molecular hydrogen (H₂) and lutetium (Lu) is systematically investigated using synchrotron X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, and visual ...

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| November 25 2024

Formation mechanism of multiple spallation and its penetration induced by shear localization in NiTi alloy under implosion loading

Xianye Wu, Xiaoyang Pei et al.

This study uses nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations to explore the dynamic failures and deformation mechanisms of a cylindrical shell composed of nanocrystalline nickel–titanium alloy under ...

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| January 21 2025

First observations on wall plasma expansion and x-ray flux in foam hohlraum at 100 kJ laser facility

Lu Zhang, Zhiwei Lin et al.

The first experiments on laser-driven cylindrical gold foam hohlraums have been performed at the 100 kJ SG-III laser facility. Measurements of the expanding plasma emission show that there is less ...

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| June 14 2024

Kinetics of dense plasma in the field of short laser pulses: A generalized approach

V. A. Astapenko, V. S. Lisitsa

A generalized kinetic model of atomic level populations in an optically dense plasma excited by laser pulses of arbitrary duration is formulated and studied. This model is based on a nonstationary ...

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| June 05 2024

Dynamic convergent shock compression initiated by return current in high-intensity laser–solid interactions

Long Yang, Martin Rehwald et al.

We investigate the dynamics of convergent shock compression in solid cylindrical targets irradiated by an ultrafast relativistic laser pulse. Our particle-in-cell simulations and coupled hydrodynamic ...

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