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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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December 01 2023
Alfred Mallet
We study large-amplitude, very oblique Alfvén waves at low β, with small gradient length scales, comparable to the ion inertial scale di. Such waves have large density fluctuations and slight ...
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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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December 01 2023
Shokirbek Shermukhamedov, Michael Probst
The sputtering of tungsten surfaces caused by hot plasma particles is an important process in fusion reactors where divertors are typically made of tungsten sheets. In this study, we present a ...
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December 01 2023
C. Ruyer, A. Fusaro et al.
A recent study [Ruyer et al., Phys. Rev. E 107 , 035208 (2023)] modeling the influence of a random phase plate on the backward stimulated Brillouin scattering growth is here supplemented with the ...
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December 01 2023
Wenqi Chen, Li Wu et al.
Permittivity is an important aspect of the design of microwave devices. In order to design microwave devices that are more suitable for the excitation of air plasmas, this paper presents a method for ...
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