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Physics of Plasmas, published by AIP Publishing in cooperation with the APS Division of Plasma Physics, is committed to the publication of original research in all areas of experimental, computational, and theoretical plasma physics. Physics of Plasmas publishes comprehensive and in-depth review manuscripts and forward-looking perspectives covering important areas of study and Special Topics highlighting new and cutting-edge developments in plasma physics. Every year a special issue publishes the invited and review papers from the most recent meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics.
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November 17 2023
Linjin Zheng, M. T. Kotschenreuther et al.
In the H-mode regime of diverted tokamaks, the presence of strong pressure gradients in the pedestal gives rise to a sizable bootstrap current, together with the Ohmic and Pfirsch–Schlueter currents, ...
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November 14 2023
Jan Egedal
The Harris-sheet model provides an elegant solution to the kinetic plasma equation for a steady state 1D current sheet geometry separating regions with oppositely directed magnetic field. However, ...
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October 26 2023
Haomin Sun, Soham Banerjee et al.
Achieving large-scale kinetic modeling is a crucial task for the development and optimization of modern plasma devices. With the trend of decreasing pressure in applications, such as plasma etching, ...
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October 18 2023
K. Avinash
A Hamiltonian formalism for studying the dynamics of a dust particle with variable electric charge in dusty plasma is proposed. The Hamiltonian and the equations of motion are presented, and the ...
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October 10 2023
L. Yin, K. L. Nguyen et al.
The influences of ion trapping and fluctuations of electron temperature and plasma flow on cross-beam energy transfer (CBET) are examined using two- and three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations ...
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October 05 2023
Fugui Zhou, Dian Zhang et al.
A cross-band frequency hopping high power microwave (HPM) oscillator with permanent magnet package was proposed. The oscillator comprises of an inner Ku-band hollow oscillator and an outer C-band ...
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November 22 2023
R. T. Sandberg, A. G. R. Thomas
The paper [R .T. Sandberg and A. G. R. Thomas, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130 , 085001 (2023)] proposed a scheme to generate ultrashort, high energy pulses of XUV photons through dephasingless photon ...
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November 21 2023
Yuexing Zhao, Ruiming Su et al.
Terahertz (THz) wave transmission in non-uniform dielectric layer containing dusty plasmas and aluminum (Al) is investigated by using the Wentzel–Kramer–Brillouin method. The application of magnetic ...
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November 21 2023
Dongdong Jia, Hairong Yin et al.
We demonstrate that beam–beam interference can significantly enhance the efficiency of multi-beam traveling-wave devices. Our theoretical analysis explains that a positive coupling of the ...
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