3 papers
quant-ph2021
Spin-dependent two-color Kapitza-Dirac effects
Scot McGregor, Wayne Cheng-Wei Huang, Bradley A. Shadwick +1
In this paper we present an analysis of the spin behavior of electrons propagating through a laser field. We present an experimentally realizable scenario in which spin-dependent e…
nlin.CD2021
Hamiltonian fluid reduction of the 1.5D Vlasov-Maxwell equations
Cristel Chandre, Bradley A. Shadwick
We consider the Vlasov-Maxwell equations with one spatial direction and two momenta, one in the longitudinal direction and one in the transverse direction. By solving the Jacobi id…
physics.plasm-ph2021
Noise and error analysis and optimization in particle-based kinetic plasma simulations
E. G. Evstatiev, J. M. Finn, B. A. Shadwick +1
We analyze the noise in macro-particle methods used in plasma physics and fluid dynamics, leading to approaches for minimizing the total error, focusing on electrostatic models in…