Skip Nav Destination
Focus and Coverage
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 in-depth review manuscripts, forward-looking perspectives, Tutorials on active topics, and Special Topics highlighting new developments. Every year a special issue publishes the invited and review papers from the most recent meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics.
Free Open Access in 2024!
The journal is open access in 2024 at no charge to authors as part of AIP Publishing's Subscribe to Open pilot.
Featured Articles
Research Article
|
January 02 2025
M. Huault, T. Carrière et al.
The majority of studies on laser-driven proton–boron nuclear reaction is based on the measurement of α -particles with solid-state nuclear tracks detector (Cr39). However, Cr39's interpretation ...
Research Article
|
December 18 2024
Guilherme T. Irumé, Joel Pavan et al.
The usual approach on electrostatic wave decay process for a weak beam-plasma system considers two different wave modes interplaying, the Langmuir and ion-sound mode. In the present paper, a ...
Research Article
|
December 04 2024
K. Moczulski, H. Wen et al.
We present numerical simulations used to interpret laser-driven plasma experiments at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research. The mechanisms by which non-thermal particles are accelerated in ...
Editor's Picks
Research Article
|
December 24 2024
Shuntaro Yoshino, Makoto Hirota et al.
The applicability of relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) and its generalization to two-fluid models (including the Hall and inertial effects) is systematically investigated by using the method ...
Research Article
|
December 18 2024
Yi-Nuo Liu, Zhang-Hu Hu et al.
We report on abnormal topological structures in the particles and electromagnetic field distributions induced by current filamentation instability, with emphasis on the effects of plasma ions. In the ...
Research Article
|
December 17 2024
Derek Amur Kuldinow, Yusuke Yamashita et al.
In this paper, a one-dimensional 10-moment multi-fluid plasma model is developed and applied to low-temperature magnetized plasmas. The 10-moment model solves for six anisotropic pressure terms, in ...
Most Recent
Research Article
|
January 13 2025
Ao Qu, Yan Chen et al.
Linear plasmas, compared to small-area low-temperature plasma jets, offer a larger single-treatment area with a brush-like pattern, making them highly promising for various applications. This paper ...
Research Article
|
January 13 2025
Jiali Lai, Chunjing Wang et al.
This study establishes a two-dimensional fluid model of nanosecond surface dielectric barrier discharge (nSDBD) at atmospheric air to investigate the effects of positive and negative sinusoidal ...
Research Article
|
January 13 2025
R. W. VanDervort, Sallee Klein et al.
When stellar radiation interacts with a molecular cloud, the cloud's fate depends on the strength of the incident radiation and the radiation's mean-free-path within the cloud [F. Bertoldi, ...
A prospectus on laser-driven inertial fusion as an energy source
Debra A. Callahan
Progress toward fusion energy breakeven and gain as measured against the Lawson criterion
Samuel E. Wurzel, Scott C. Hsu
Weakly nonlinear incompressible Rayleigh–Taylor–Kelvin–Helmholtz instability in plane geometry
Zhen-Qi Zou, Jun-Feng Wu, et al.