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20042026
most citedIon acceleration by superintense laser-plasma interaction

1.5k citations

180 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 1 cited

Ytterbium charge state and stabilization in the Ba(Ca)F host by electron paramagnetic resonance and infrared photoluminescence

David John, Shelja Sharma, Marius Stef +18

Lanthanide-doped fluorides are promising materials for advanced photonic and quantum applications due to their wide bandgap, low phonon energy, and chemical stability. In this work…

cs.ET2026

Post-Moore Technologies for Plasma Simulation: A Community Roadmap

Luca Pennati, Erik M. Åsgrim, Jeremy J. Williams +21

Plasma simulations are among the most computationally demanding scientific workloads, combining high-dimensional kinetic evolution, particle-mesh coupling, field solves, and data-i…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Phase Equilibria of the Al-Ti-Nb-Zr-Ta System

Jiří Kozlík, František Lukáč, Mariano Casas-Luna +8

Phase equilibria in the Al-Ti-Nb-Zr-Ta refractory complex concentrated alloy system were investigated using a high throughput experimental approach. A pseudo-ternary section of the…

physics.plasm-ph2026

Evolution of SPI-induced disruptions in ASDEX Upgrade

P. Heinrich, G. Papp, S. Jachmich +23

Disruptions are a major concern for future fusion reactors based on the tokamak principle. To ensure machine protection, the thermal loads and vessel forces that arise during disru…

physics.plasm-ph2026★ 1 cited

Multi-GPU Hybrid Particle-in-Cell Monte Carlo Simulations for Exascale Computing Systems

Jeremy J. Williams, Jordy Trilaksono, Stefan Costea +13

Particle-in-Cell (PIC) Monte Carlo (MC) simulations are central to plasma physics but face increasing challenges on heterogeneous HPC systems due to excessive data movement, synchr…

physics.plasm-ph2026★ 1 cited

Variability of MHD Instabilities in Benign Termination of High-Current Runaway Electron Beams in the JET and DIII-D Tokamaks

C. F. B. Zimmermann, C. Paz-Soldan, G. Su +14

Benign termination, in which magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instabilities deconfine runaway electrons (REs) following hydrogenic injections, is a promising strategy for mitigating dange…

physics.plasm-ph2025★ 2 cited

Integrating High Performance In-Memory Data Streaming and In-Situ Visualization in Hybrid MPI+OpenMP PIC MC Simulations Towards Exascale

Jeremy J. Williams, Stefan Costea, Daniel Medeiros +11

Efficient simulation of complex plasma dynamics is crucial for advancing fusion energy research. Particle-in-Cell (PIC) Monte Carlo (MC) simulations provide insights into plasma be…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Resistance of refractory high-entropy alloys to ultrafast laser irradiation

Nikita Medvedev

Response of refractory high-entropy alloys MoNbTaVW and HfNbTaTiZr to ultrafast laser radiation is modelled with the hybrid code XTANT-3, combining tight-binding molecular dynamics…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 2 cited

PLATOSpec: a precise spectrograph in support of space missions

P. Kabáth, M. Skarka, A. Hatzes +42

The upcoming space missions that will characterize exoplanets, such as PLATO and Ariel, will collect huge amounts of data that will need to be complemented with ground-based observ…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Radiation stability of nanocomposite scintillators

L. Prouzova Prochazkova, F. Hajek, M. Buryi +2

Radiation hardness of scintillating nanocomposites consisting of inorganic scintillating nanocrystalline powders dispersed in organic matrices was studied under electron, X-ray and…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

Thermodynamic properties of CrMnFeCoNi high entropy alloy at elevated electronic temperatures

Nikita Medvedev

The Cantor alloy (equiatomic CrMnFeCoNi) is a high-entropy alloy with unique physical properties and radiation resistance. To model its response to intense laser pulses, the parame…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Magneto-elastic softening in cold-sprayed polycrystalline nickel studied by resonant ultrasound spectroscopy

Michaela Janovská, Petr Sedlák, Martin Ševčík +5

Cold-sprayed metallic deposits are additively manufactured materials containing high levels of compressive residual stress. Here we show that the presence and intensity of this str…

physics.plasm-ph2025

The Atomic Beam Probe Synthetic Diagnostic and its Application in Fusion Plasmas

Mátyás Aradi, Dániel I. Réfy, Shimpei Futatani +6

The Atomic Beam Probe was installed on the COMPASS tokamak in Prague as an extension of the Beam Emission Spectroscopy. The construction and installation of the diagnostic were pre…

hep-ex2025

The Darkfield Approach to Measuring Vacuum Birefringence and Light-by-Light Couplings -- A Proof-of-Principle Experiment

Michal Smíd, Pooyan Khademi, Carsten Bähtz +29

Vacuum fluctuations give rise to effective nonlinear interactions between electromagnetic fields. These generically modify the characteristics of light traversing a strong-field re…

physics.ins-det2025

First Steps Toward the Development of a Straight-Line Reference Alignment System for Future Accelerators at CERN Using Pseudo-Nondiffracting Layer Beams

Martin Dušek, Sebastian Figura, Jakub Michal Polak +6

This paper presents experimental results that allow for the performance evaluation of a straight-line reference alignment system based on pseudo-nondiffracting Layer beams. Sensors…

physics.plasm-ph2025★ 8 cited

Simulating X-point radiator turbulence

K. Eder, W. Zholobenko, A. Stegmeir +5

Coupling a high-performance burning plasma core to a detached boundary solution is critical for realizing magnetic confinement fusion power. Predictive simulations of the edge and…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Creating mixed-phase states in cadmium sulfide by swift heavy ion irradiation

Aldo Artímez Peña, Nikita Medvedev

CdS has broad applications in solar cells and radiation detectors. We study its response to irradiation with swift heavy ions and determine its damage thresholds. We apply a model…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Effects of non-equilibrium in ultrafast irradiation of matter

Nikita Medvedev

This proceeding discusses nonequilibrium effects in matter exposed to XUV/X-ray irradiation. When ultrashort, intense XUV/X-ray pulses interact with materials, they trigger a compl…

physics.plasm-ph2025★ 3 cited

Betatron radiation emitted during the direct laser acceleration of electrons in underdense plasmas

Robert Babjak, Marija Vranic

Relativistic laser pulses can accelerate electrons up to energies of several GeV during the interaction with gaseous targets through the direct laser acceleration (DLA) mechanism.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 3 cited

Ultrafast X-ray induced damage and nonthermal melting in cadmium sulfide

Nikita Medvedev, Aldo Artímez Peña

Cadmium sulfide is a valuable material for solar cells, photovoltaic, and radiation detectors. It is thus important to evaluate the material damage mechanisms and damage threshold…

physics.plasm-ph2024★ 4 cited

An upper pressure limit for low-Z benign termination of runaway electron beams in TCV

M Hoppe, J Decker, U Sheikh +17

We present a model for the particle balance in the post-disruption runaway electron plateau phase of a tokamak discharge. The model is constructed with the help of, and applied to,…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 4 cited

Anomalous Spectroscopical Effects in an Antiferromagnetic Semiconductor

Michal Hubert, Tomáš Maleček, Kyo-Hoon Ahn +6

Following the recent observation of anomalous Hall effect in antiferromagnetic hexagonal MnTe thin films, related phenomena at finite frequencies have come into focus. Magnetic cir…

physics.plasm-ph2024★ 4 cited

Laser initiated p-11B fusion reactions in petawatt high-repetition-rates laser facilities

M. Scisciò, G. Petringa, Z. Zhu +43

Driving the nuclear fusion reaction p+11B -> 3 alpha + 8.7 MeV in laboratory conditions, by interaction between high-power laser pulses and matter, has become a popular field of re…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 5 cited

Phase Composition of AlTiNbMoV, AlTiNbTaZr and AlTiNbMoCr Refractory Complex Concentrated Alloys: A Correlation of Predictions and Experiment

Jiří Kozlík, František Lukáč, Mariano Casas Luna +5

Designing complex concentrated alloys (CCA), also known as high entropy alloys (HEA), requires reliable and accessible thermodynamic predictions due to vast space of possible compo…