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20092023
most citedPlasmoid ejection and secondary current sheet generation from magnetic reconnection in laser-plasma interaction

123 citations · 411 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

physics.plasm-ph2023

Control of energy spectra and enhancement of energy conversion of fast electrons generated by dual-color picosecond lasers

Tie-Huai Zhang, Wei-Min Wang, Yu-Tong Li +1

After the successful fusion ignition at National Ignition Facility, seeking for a high-gain fusion scheme becomes the next hot-spot in inertial confinement fusion community. Fast i…

physics.plasm-ph2023

Steady regime of radiation pressure acceleration with foil thickness adjustable within micrometers under 10-100 PW laser

Meng Liu, Wei-Min Wang, Yu-Tong Li

Quasi-monoenergetic GeV-scale protons are predicted to efficiently generate via radiation pressure acceleration (RPA) when the foil thickness is matched with the laser intensity, e…

physics.plasm-ph2021★ 41 cited

Dense Polarized Positrons from Laser-Irradiated Foil Targets in the QED Regime

Huai-Hang Song, Wei-Min Wang, Yu-Tong Li

Dense positrons are shown to be effectively generated from laser-solid interactions in the strong-field quantum electrodynamics (QED) regime. Whether these positrons are polarized…

physics.plasm-ph2021★ 2 cited

YUNIC: A Multi-Dimensional Particle-In-Cell Code for Laser-Plasma Interaction

Huai-Hang Song, Wei-Min Wang, Yu-Tong Li

For simulating laser-plasma interactions, we developed a parallel, multi-dimensional, fully relativistically particle-in-cell (PIC) code, named YUNIC. The core algorithm is introdu…

physics.acc-ph2021★ 9 cited

Generation of polarized positron beams via collisions of ultrarelativistic electron beams

Huai-Hang Song, Wei-Min Wang, Yu-Tong Li

A novel scheme is proposed for generating a polarized positron beam via multiphoton Breit-Wheeler process during the collision of a 10 GeV, pC seeding electron beam with the other…

physics.plasm-ph2021★ 20 cited

Spin and polarization effects on the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production in laser-plasma interaction

Huai-Hang Song, Wei-Min Wang, Yan-Fei Li +5

The spin effect of electrons/positrons (/) and polarization effect of photons are investigated in the interaction of two counter-propagating linearly polarized 10-PW-…

physics.plasm-ph2020★ 6 cited

Low-frequency whistler waves excited by relativistic laser pulses

Huai-Hang Song, Wei-Min Wang, Jia-Qi Wang +2

It is shown by multi-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations that intense secondary whistler waves with special vortex-like field topology can be excited by a relativistic laser p…

physics.plasm-ph2020★ 10 cited

Quantum-stochasticity-induced asymmetry in angular distribution of electrons in a quasi-classical regime

Guang Hu, Wei-Qiang Sun, Bing-Jun Li +5

Impacts of quantum stochasticity on the dynamics of an ultra-relativistic electron beam head-on colliding with a linearly polarized ultra-intense laser pulse are theoretically inve…

physics.plasm-ph2019★ 4 cited

Guided propagation of extremely intense lasers in plasma via ion motion

Wei-Min Wang, Zheng-Ming Sheng, Thomas Wilson +2

The upcoming petawatt laser facilities may deliver laser pulses with unprecedented intensity of , which can trigger various nonlinear quantum…

physics.plasm-ph2019★ 42 cited

Spin-polarization effects of an ultrarelativistic electron beam in an ultraintense two-color laser pulse

Huai-Hang Song, Wei-Min Wang, Jian-Xing Li +2

Spin-polarization effects of an ultrarelativistic electron beam head-on colliding with an ultraintense two-color laser pulse are investigated comprehensively in the quantum radiati…

physics.optics2018★ 2 cited

Determining Carrier-Envelope Phase of Relativistic Laser Pulses via Electron Momentum Distribution

Yan-Fei Li, Jian-Xing Li, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan +7

The impacts of the carrier-envelope phase (CEP) of a long relativistic tightly-focused laser pulse on the dynamics of a counter-propagating electron beam have been investigated in…

physics.plasm-ph2017★ 52 cited

Collimated Ultra-Bright Gamma-Rays from a PW-Laser-Driven Wire Wiggler

W. -M. Wang, Z. -M. Sheng, P. Gibbon +3

It is shown by three-dimensional QED particle-in-cell simulation that as a laser pulse of 2.5 PW and 20 fs propagates along a sub-wavelength-wide solid wire, directional synchrotro…

nucl-ex2016★ 18 cited

Nuclear Fusion in Laser-Driven Counter-Streaming Collisionless Plasmas

Xiaopeng Zhang, Jiarui Zhao, Dawei Yuan +17

Nuclear fusion reactions are the most important processes in nature to power stars and produce new elements, and lie at the center of the understanding of nucleosynthesis in the un…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 8 cited

Two-stage acceleration of interstellar ions due to the interaction of high-energy lepton plasma flow

Yun-Qian Cui, Zheng-Ming Sheng, Quan-Ming Lu +2

We present the particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation results of the interaction of a high-energy lepton plasma flow with background electron-proton plasma and focus on the acceleration…

physics.plasm-ph2014★ 3 cited

Intense isolated few-cycle attosecond XUV pulses from overdense plasmas driven by tailored laser pulses

Zi-Yu Chen, Xiao-Ya Li, Li-Ming Chen +2

A method to generate an intense isolated few-cycle attosecond XUV pulse is demonstrated using particle-in-cell simulations. When a tailored laser pulse with a sharp edge irradiates…

physics.plasm-ph2012★ 123 cited

Plasmoid ejection and secondary current sheet generation from magnetic reconnection in laser-plasma interaction

Quan-Li Dong, Shou-Jun Wang, Quan-Ming Lu +21

Reconnection of the self-generated magnetic fields in laser-plasma interaction was first investigated experimentally by Nilson {\it et al.} [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 255001 (2006)] by…

physics.plasm-ph2009★ 71 cited

Intense high contrast femtosecond K-shell x-ray source from laser-driven Ar clusters

L. M. Chen, F. Liu, W. M. Wang +9

Bright Ar K-shell x-ray with very little background has been generated using an Ar clustering gas jet target irradiated with an 800 mJ, 30 fs ultra-high contrast laser, with the me…