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20182026
most citedDemonstration of a compact plasma accelerator powered by laser-accelerated electron beams

82 citations · 138 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

physics.plasm-ph2026

PIConGPU modeling of nanoplasma formation in helium nanodroplets irradiated by intense femtosecond laser pulses

Cristian Medina, Klaus Steiniger, Brian Edward Marre +15

Helium nanodroplets provide a unique and versatile platform for investigating strong-field-driven nanoplasma dynamics. In this work, we present large-scale, GPU-accelerated particl…

physics.plasm-ph2026

Kinetic Simulations of Laser-Driven Compression and Heating of Magnetised Cryogenic Hydrogen Targets using PIConGPU

Filip Optołowicz, Klaus Steiniger, David Blaschke +2

We present fully kinetic two-dimensional, three-velocity-component (2D3V) PIConGPU simulations of a three-beam direct-drive interaction with a 15 m solid-density cryogenic hydro…

hep-ph2026

Monte-Carlo Event Generation for X-Ray Thomson Scattering Analysis

Uwe Hernandez Acosta, Thomas Gawne, Jan Vorberger +6

A key diagnostic in warm-dense matter (WDM) experiments is X-ray Thomson scattering (XRTS), but its interpretation is often limited by complex instrument effects and the high compu…

physics.plasm-ph2026

Reduction of SAXS Signal due to Doppler Broadening Induced Loss of Coherence

Thomas Kluge, Uwe Hernandez Acosta, Klaus Steiniger +2

We present an analytical and numerical study of how Doppler-induced spectral broadening in laser-heated plasmas degrades the coherence of small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) signal…

astro-ph.HE2025

Radiative Signatures of Magnetic Reconnection: An Approach to Remote Probing of Reconnection Dynamics

Sergey K. Ermakov, Michael Bussmann, Alexander Debus +4

Magnetic reconnection drives a wide range of astrophysical phenomena, including geomagnetic storms, solar flares, and activity in blazars. However, direct measurement of key reconn…

cs.DC2025

A Parallel and Highly-Portable HPC Poisson Solver: Preconditioned Bi-CGSTAB with alpaka

Luca Pennati, Måns I. Andersson, Klaus Steiniger +4

This paper presents the design, implementation, and performance analysis of a parallel and GPU-accelerated Poisson solver based on the Preconditioned Bi-Conjugate Gradient Stabiliz…

physics.comp-ph2025

The Artificial Scientist -- in-transit Machine Learning of Plasma Simulations

Jeffrey Kelling, Vicente Bolea, Michael Bussmann +19

Increasing HPC cluster sizes and large-scale simulations that produce petabytes of data per run, create massive IO and storage challenges for analysis. Deep learning-based techniqu…

cs.PF2024

Streaming Data in HPC Workflows Using ADIOS

Greg Eisenhauer, Norbert Podhorszki, Ana Gainaru +12

The "IO Wall" problem, in which the gap between computation rate and data access rate grows continuously, poses significant problems to scientific workflows which have traditionall…

cs.DC2024★ 6 cited

Enabling High-Throughput Parallel I/O in Particle-in-Cell Monte Carlo Simulations with openPMD and Darshan I/O Monitoring

Jeremy J. Williams, Daniel Medeiros, Stefan Costea +14

Large-scale HPC simulations of plasma dynamics in fusion devices require efficient parallel I/O to avoid slowing down the simulation and to enable the post-processing of critical i…

physics.comp-ph2023★ 1 cited

EZ: An Efficient, Charge Conserving Current Deposition Algorithm for Electromagnetic Particle-In-Cell Simulations

Klaus Steiniger, Rene Widera, Sergei Bastrakov +13

We present EZ, a novel current deposition algorithm for particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. EZ calculates the current density on the electromagnetic grid due to macro-particle moti…

cs.PL2021★ 5 cited

Challenges Porting a C++ Template-Metaprogramming Abstraction Layer to Directive-based Offloading

Jeffrey Kelling, Sergei Bastrakov, Alexander Debus +10

HPC systems employ a growing variety of compute accelerators with different architectures and from different vendors. Large scientific applications are required to run efficiently…

physics.acc-ph2019★ 82 cited

Demonstration of a compact plasma accelerator powered by laser-accelerated electron beams

T. Kurz, T. Heinemann, M. F. Gilljohann +22

Plasma wakefield accelerators are capable of sustaining gigavolt-per-centimeter accelerating fields, surpassing the electric breakdown threshold in state-of-the-art accelerator mod…

physics.plasm-ph2019★ 37 cited

Probing Ultrafast Magnetic-Field Generation by Current Filamentation Instability in Femtosecond Relativistic Laser-Matter Interactions

G. Raj, O. Kononenko, A. Doche +28

We present experimental measurements of the femtosecond time-scale generation of strong magnetic-field fluctuations during the interaction of ultrashort, moderately relativistic la…

physics.comp-ph2018★ 7 cited

Quantitatively consistent computation of coherent and incoherent radiation in particle-in-cell codes - a general form factor formalism for macro-particles

Richard Pausch, Alexander Debus, Axel Huebl +4

Quantitative predictions from synthetic radiation diagnostics often have to consider all accelerated particles. For particle-in-cell (PIC) codes, this not only means including all…