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SPARC as a platform to advance tokamak science
The academic research ecosystem required to support the development of fusion energy
The effect of pellet injection on turbulent transport in TJ-II
Evolution and hot electron generation of laser–plasma instabilities in direct-drive inertial confinement fusion
Ultrafast relativistic electron probing of extreme magnetic fields
Investigation of spatial distribution of EEPFs and neutral species in nitrogen inductively coupled plasmas by 2D hybrid simulation
Simulations of laser-driven strong-field QED with Ptarmigan: Resolving wavelength-scale interference and γ-ray polarization
Issues
EDITORIALS
Foreword to special issue: Papers from the 64th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, October 17–21, 2022
In Special Collection:
Papers from the 64th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics
Phys. Plasmas 30, 090401 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0169071
PERSPECTIVES
SPARC as a platform to advance tokamak science
In Special Collection:
2023 Early Career Collection
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Private Fusion Research: Opportunities and Challenges in Plasma Science
Phys. Plasmas 30, 090601 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0162457
The Zap Energy approach to commercial fusion
In Special Collection:
Private Fusion Research: Opportunities and Challenges in Plasma Science
B. Levitt; E. T. Meier; R. Umstattd; J. R. Barhydt; I. A. M. Datta; C. Liekhus-Schmaltz; D. A. Sutherland; B. A. Nelson
Phys. Plasmas 30, 090603 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0163361
The academic research ecosystem required to support the development of fusion energy

In Special Collection:
Private Fusion Research: Opportunities and Challenges in Plasma Science
Phys. Plasmas 30, 090604 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0167369
LETTERS
The propagation of Alfvén wave in magnetized plasma sheath of hypersonic vehicles in near space
Phys. Plasmas 30, 090701 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0165553
TUTORIAL
Hamiltonian description for magnetic field lines in fusion plasmas: A tutorial
In Special Collection:
Reviews and Tutorials in Magnetically Confined Plasmas, Heating, and Confinement
Phys. Plasmas 30, 090901 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0170345
ARTICLES
Basic Plasma Phenomena, Waves, Instabilities
Radiative cooling effects on reverse shocks formed by magnetized supersonic plasma flows
In Special Collection:
2023 Early Career Collection
S. Merlini; J. D. Hare; G. C. Burdiak; J. W. D. Halliday; A. Ciardi; J. P. Chittenden; T. Clayson; A. J. Crilly; S. J. Eardley; K. E. Marrow; D. R. Russell; R. A. Smith; N. Stuart; L. G. Suttle; E. R. Tubman; V. Valenzuela-Villaseca; T. W. O. Varnish; S. V. Lebedev
Phys. Plasmas 30, 092102 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0160809
Bifurcation of coherent vortex flow in a magnetic island through nonlinear parity instability
Phys. Plasmas 30, 092103 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0161167
Plasma flows during the ablation stage of an over-massed pulsed-power-driven exploding planar wire array
R. Datta; J. Angel; J. B. Greenly; S. N. Bland; J. P. Chittenden; E. S. Lavine; W. M. Potter; D. Robinson; T. W. O. Varnish; E. Wong; D. A. Hammer; B. R. Kusse; J. D. Hare
Phys. Plasmas 30, 092104 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0160893
Observations of plasma waves generated by charged space objects
In Special Collection:
Papers from the 64th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics
Phys. Plasmas 30, 092106 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0155454
Plasma modes in QED super-strong magnetic fields of magnetars and laser plasmas
In Special Collection:
Relativistic Plasma in Supercritical Electromagnetic Fields
Phys. Plasmas 30, 092112 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0160628
Nonlinear Phenomena, Turbulence, Transport
Electron heat flux and propagating fronts in plasma thermal quench via ambipolar transport
In Special Collection:
2023 Early Career Collection
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Papers from the 2021-2022 Sherwood Fusion Theory Conferences
Phys. Plasmas 30, 092301 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0163411
Electron inertia effects in 3D hybrid-kinetic collisionless plasma turbulence
Phys. Plasmas 30, 092302 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0148818
The effect of pellet injection on turbulent transport in TJ-II
Phys. Plasmas 30, 092303 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0163832
Phase space dynamics of unmagnetized plasmas: Collisionless and collisional regimes
Phys. Plasmas 30, 092304 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0160549
Nondiffusive particle transport in the stellarator experiment TJ-K
In Special Collection:
2023 Early Career Collection
Phys. Plasmas 30, 092306 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0156125
Nearly integrable flows and chaotic tangles in the Dimits shift regime of plasma edge turbulence
In Special Collection:
Turbulence in Plasmas and Fluids
Phys. Plasmas 30, 092307 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0158013
Energy transfer and scale dynamics in 2D and 3D laser-driven jets
Phys. Plasmas 30, 092309 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0161028
Magnetically Confined Plasmas, Heating, Confinement
Non-linear dynamics of the double tearing mode
Phys. Plasmas 30, 092502 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0162608
Hot spots of the main limiter induced by fast ions in experimental advanced superconducting tokamak (EAST)
Y. L. Li; Y. F. Xu; X. Y. Xu; G. S. Xu; R. R. Liang; R. Ding; X. Liu; K. N. Geng; T. Zhang; S. X. Wang; H. C. Fan; G. Q. Zhong; S. Y. Fu; D. A. Lu; S. T. Mao; J. Fu; Q. Zang; L. Cao; B. Zhang; L. Wang; R. Chen; N. Yan; Q. Q. Yang; H. Q. Liu; Y. L. Xie; X. Z. Gong; J. S. Hu; EAST team
Phys. Plasmas 30, 092503 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0156815
Simulation of neutral beam current drive on EAST tokamak
Phys. Plasmas 30, 092507 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0158503
Flexible, integrated modeling of tokamak stability, transport, equilibrium, and pedestal physics
In Special Collection:
Papers from the 63rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics
B. C. Lyons; J. McClenaghan; T. Slendebroek; O. Meneghini; T. F. Neiser; S. P. Smith; D. B. Weisberg; E. A. Belli; J. Candy; J. M. Hanson; L. L. Lao; N. C. Logan; S. Saarelma; O. Sauter; P. B. Snyder; G. M. Staebler; K. E. Thome; A. D. Turnbull
Phys. Plasmas 30, 092510 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0156877
Inertially Confined Plasmas, Dense Plasmas, Equations of State
Evolution and hot electron generation of laser–plasma instabilities in direct-drive inertial confinement fusion
In Special Collection:
2023 Early Career Collection
Phys. Plasmas 30, 092701 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0161865
Large-incidence-angle multiple-beam two-plasmon decay instability in inertial confinement fusion
Phys. Plasmas 30, 092702 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0162495
Correlations between asymmetric compression, burn amplification, and hot-spot velocities in inertial confinement fusion implosions
R. C. Nora; N. Birge; D. Casey; C. Danly; E. L. Dewald; B. Z. Djordjevic; A. Do; M. Durocher; J. E. Field; D. Fittinghoff; M. S. Freeman; J. Gaffney; V. Geppert Kleinrath; S. Haan; K. Hahn; E. Hartouni; M. Hohenberger; S. Kerr; O. L. Landen; J. Milovich; A. S. Moore; P. Patel; D. J. Schlossberg; S. M. Sepke; B. K. Spears; P. L. Volegov; C. Wilde
Phys. Plasmas 30, 092705 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0153421
Simulated impact of fill tube geometry on recent high-yield implosions at the National Ignition Facility
In Special Collection:
Papers from the 65th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics
Phys. Plasmas 30, 092706 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0156346
Optimization of target compression for high-gain fast ignition via machine learning
Phys. Plasmas 30, 092707 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0159764
First large capsule implosions in a frustum-shaped hohlraum
K. L. Baker; P. A. Amendt; J. S. Ross; V. A. Smalyuk; O. L. Landen; D. D. Ho; S. Khan; S. W. Haan; J. D. Lindl; D. Mariscal; J. L. Milovich; S. MacLaren; Y. Ping; D. J. Strozzi; R. M. Bionta; D. T. Casey; P. M. Celliers; D. N. Fittinghoff; H. Geppert-Kleinrath; V. Geppert-Kleinrath; K. D. Hahn; M. Gatu Johnson; Y. Kim; K. Meaney; M. Millot; R. Nora; P. L. Volegov; C. H. Wilde
Phys. Plasmas 30, 092708 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0163396
Heliospheric and Astrophysical Plasmas
Polarization and properties of low-frequency waves in warm magnetized two-fluid plasma
Phys. Plasmas 30, 092901 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0149227
Plasma-Based Accelerators, Beams, Radiation Generation
Kinetic theory for spin-polarized relativistic plasmas
In Special Collection:
Relativistic Plasma in Supercritical Electromagnetic Fields
Phys. Plasmas 30, 093102 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0165836
Gamma-flash generation in multi-petawatt laser–matter interactions
In Special Collection:
Relativistic Plasma in Supercritical Electromagnetic Fields
P. Hadjisolomou; T. M. Jeong; D. Kolenaty; A. J. Macleod; V. Olšovcová; R. Versaci; C. P. Ridgers; S. V. Bulanov
Phys. Plasmas 30, 093103 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0158264
Ultrafast relativistic electron probing of extreme magnetic fields
In Special Collection:
2023 Early Career Collection
,
Relativistic Plasma in Supercritical Electromagnetic Fields
Brandon K. Russell; Paul T. Campbell; Qian Qian; Jason A. Cardarelli; Stepan S. Bulanov; Sergei V. Bulanov; Gabriele M. Grittani; Daniel Seipt; Louise Willingale; Alexander G. R. Thomas
Phys. Plasmas 30, 093105 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0163392
Radiation-dominated injection of positrons generated by the nonlinear Breit–Wheeler process into a plasma channel
In Special Collection:
Relativistic Plasma in Supercritical Electromagnetic Fields
Phys. Plasmas 30, 093107 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0160121
A three-band frequency hopping high power microwave oscillator based on magnetic field tuning
Phys. Plasmas 30, 093108 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0163592
Radiation: Emission, Absorption, Transport
Low-Temperature Plasmas, Plasma Applications, Plasma Sources, Sheaths
Investigation of spatial distribution of EEPFs and neutral species in nitrogen inductively coupled plasmas by 2D hybrid simulation
In Special Collection:
Plasma Sources for Advanced Semiconductor Applications
Phys. Plasmas 30, 093502 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0159577
Discharge characteristics of a low-pressure geometrically asymmetric cylindrical capacitively coupled plasma with an axisymmetric magnetic field
In Special Collection:
Plasma Sources for Advanced Semiconductor Applications
Swati Dahiya; Pawandeep Singh; Yashshri Patil; Sarveshwar Sharma; Nishant Sirse; Shantanu Kumar Karkari
Phys. Plasmas 30, 093505 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0160506
Power flow in magnetically insulated transmission lines with ion backscatter effects
Phys. Plasmas 30, 093506 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0159544
Dusty Plasmas
Shock waves in strongly coupled one-dimensional dusty plasmas under Yukawa interactions
Phys. Plasmas 30, 093701 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0157232
Numerical Methods, Verification and Validation in Plasma Physics
Bounce-averaged drifts: Equivalent definitions, numerical implementations, and example cases
Phys. Plasmas 30, 093901 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0160282
Simulations of laser-driven strong-field QED with Ptarmigan: Resolving wavelength-scale interference and γ-ray polarization
In Special Collection:
Relativistic Plasma in Supercritical Electromagnetic Fields
Phys. Plasmas 30, 093903 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0159963
BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS
Progress toward fusion energy breakeven and gain as measured against the Lawson criterion
Samuel E. Wurzel, Scott C. Hsu
A review of plasma acceleration and detachment mechanisms in propulsive magnetic nozzles
Kunlong Wu, Zhiyuan Chen, et al.
Comparison of laser-produced plasma spatio-temporal electron density evolution measured using interferometry with simulation results
Mathew P. Polek, Tirtha R. Joshi, et al.