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  1. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-13
    Fast spin could stabilize short mirror fusion devices

    Richard Fitzpatrick · “Macroscopic Stability of a Rapidly Rotating Theta Pinch”

    2608.13485
  2. astro-ph.SR arXiv submitted 2026-08-13
    Turbulence halves electron-capture yields in Type Ia supernovae

    S. Shiber +11 · “The Production of Electron-Capture Elements in Thermonuclear Supernovae: Theory vs. Observations”

    2608.13432
  3. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-11
    Surrogates predict ITER particle transport 100,000x faster

    Yashika Ghai +3 · “Machine-learning surrogate models for nonlinear energetic-particle transport predictions in ITER”

    2608.11058
  4. physics.acc-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-11
    One number ε marks when beam collisions brake and reverse

    W. Zhang +2 · “High-energy electron-positron beam collisions with large-angle disruptions”

    2608.10988
  5. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-11
    Gas flow cuts plasma jet temperature by 36 K

    Radhika T. P. +1 · “Gas Flow Rate Influence on Gas Temperature Regulation in a Reinforced Radio-Frequency Cross-Field Atmospheric Plasma Jet”

    2608.10575
  6. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-11
    Thermal plasma can turn trash into burnable syngas

    Tejashwi Rana +5 · “Potential of Atmospheric Pressure Thermal Plasma Technology towards Waste Processing: A Comprehensive Review”

    2608.10565
  7. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-10
    Impurities and shaping could lift a tokamak's fusion power by 65%

    A. Saltzman +10 · “Steady state, core, operational optimization of an ARC-like tokamak via plasma composition and shape”

    2608.10124
  8. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-09
    Two scaling laws set the top energy of laser wakefield accelerators

    Petr Valenta +6 · “Energy-optimized scaling laws for self-guided laser wakefield accelerators”

    2608.08903
  9. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-09
    One vacuum wave splits into helicon and TG as plasma forms

    Lei Chang · “Transitional evolution of the wave dispersion relation during helicon discharge ignition: an analytical theory from vacuum to steady operation”

    2608.08649
  10. physics.acc-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-09
    Energy window shift doubles electron bunch length

    Zhihao Chen +7 · “Terahertz-based longitudinal phase space diagnostics of laser wakefield accelerated electron beams”

    2608.08586
  11. astro-ph.HE arXiv submitted 2026-08-09
    Weak ionization fragments reconnection into small plasmoids

    Yue Hu +5 · “Plasmoid-Mediated 2D Magnetic Reconnection in Partially Ionized Plasmas”

    2608.08448
  12. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-08
    One formula scales the dipole radio window as sheath-to-body cubed

    Richard Lieu · “Dipole-Field Magnetic Windows for Radio-Frequency Transmission Through Hypersonic Plasma Sheaths: A Reduced-Order Scaling Model”

    2608.10018
  13. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-08
    Tri-halide silicon ions etch faster than their halide atoms

    Kazuhiro Karahashi +2 · “Beam experiments for reactive ion etching of silicon (Si)-based materials by silicon halide ions”

    2608.08031
  14. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-08
    A traveling electric wave can freeze an electron hole in place

    Ran Guo · “Simulations of self-accelerating electron phase space holes in an applied electric field”

    2608.07961
  15. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-07
    1D plasma solver ties emission and circuits to breakdown behavior

    Asif Iqbal +5 · “PASCHEN-1D: A one-dimensional fluid plasma solver with multi-mechanism surface emission and flexible external circuit coupling”

    2608.07721
  16. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-07
    Fission chamber verified for SPARC high-rate fusion monitoring

    V. Hagenlocker +7 · “Characterization of a prototype parallel-plate $^{238}$U fission chamber with DD and DT fusion neutron sources”

    2608.07466
  17. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-06
    New equations model Alfvén turbulence on dipole field lines

    Ian M. DesJardin +3 · “The Equations of Reduced Magnetohydrodynamics in Dipole Coordinates”

    2608.06617
  18. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-06
    One network reconstructs E-fields from both EFISH polarizations

    Zhijian Yang +4 · “Polarization-Conditioned Fourier-enhanced DeepONet for Electric Field Reconstruction from EFISH Measurements”

    2608.05937
  19. hep-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-06
    Electron spin rotation after a laser pulse is a pure holonomy

    N. S. Akintsov +3 · “Net electron spin rotation in a plane-wave pulse: Holonomy set by the anomalous magnetic moment”

    2608.05698
  20. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-06
    Heat flux reconstructed from plasma signals

    Hao Si +10 · “SafeDivertor: Faithful Divertor Heat Flux Reconstruction from Macroscopic Plasma State Signals via Time-Frequency Prior Exploitation”

    2608.05669
  21. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-06
    One ray tracer now spans RF heating to ECE in 3D plasmas

    Yuxuan Wang +1 · “BORAY-3D: A ray tracing code for three-dimensional magnetized plasma configurations”

    2608.05667
  22. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-06
    Neural operator returns tokamak equilibria in 2.8 ms at 0.05% error

    Plamen G. Krastev (Harvard University) · “Millisecond-Scale Neural Operator Surrogates for Double-Null Free-Boundary Grad-Shafranov Equilibria”

    2608.05555
  23. nlin.CD arXiv submitted 2026-08-05
    Chaotic transport in the Tokamap obeys a fixed power law

    Diego F. M. Oliveira +1 · “A Symplectic Map Approach to Magnetic Field-Line Dynamics in Tokamaks”

    2608.05414
  24. astro-ph.SR arXiv submitted 2026-08-05
    Steady |B| waves solve the solar wind speed spike puzzle

    Yuliang Ding +8 · “Spherically Polarized Alfv\'en Waves and the Gosling Boost”

    2608.05091
  25. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-05
    Laser-cone target makes 300-as gamma pulses that stay 78% polarized

    De-Sheng Zhang +5 · “Polarization-resolved attosecond gamma-ray emission from few-cycle laser interactions with cone targets”

    2608.04363
  26. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-04
    5,522 papers: MHD abstracts longest

    Jeremy J. Williams +2 · “Computational Methods and GPU Acceleration in Plasma Physics: A Empirical Analysis of arXiv Publications and Research Trends”

    2608.04171
  27. physics.space-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-04
    Twin Mars orbiters show plasma clouds are Kelvin-Helmholtz waves

    Chi Zhang +13 · “Simultaneous Mars-orbit observations reveal Kelvin-Helmholtz instability-driven bulk atmospheric ion escape”

    2608.03780
  28. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-04
    Two cascade observables pin down laser intensity and pulse duration

    Ke-Jia Wei +5 · “Generation-Resolved Signatures in QED Cascades: Diagnostics for Ultraintense Laser Parameters”

    2608.03331
  29. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-04
    Twisted laser pinches electron beams to boost density sevenfold

    Mingxuan Wei +23 · “Generation of dense relativistic electron beams via vortex laser-driven self-generated magnetic pinching”

    2608.03240
  30. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-03
    Compact ECR source hits H- density of 5.5e10 cm-3 at 500 W

    Bibekananda Naik +4 · “Mass Spectrometry Studies of Hydrogen Ions Energy Distributions in an ECR- based Large Volume Plasma Source”

    2608.02226
  31. astro-ph.SR arXiv submitted 2026-08-03
    Ground radio can detect major solar flares minutes before X-rays

    Julia van Ravenswaaij +3 · “Performance of radio-based detection to operational monitoring M5+ class solar flares”

    2608.02199
  32. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-03
    High-energy runaways stabilize tokamak disruption modes

    Shi-Jie Liu (1) +12 · “Hybrid Kinetic-MHD Simulations of Drift-Orbit Effects on the Stability and Non-Linear Dynamics of Runaway Electron Beams”

    2608.02121
  33. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-03
    Solver computes finite-n MHD stability and its gradients in one pass

    Rahul Gaur +4 · “AGNI: A differentiable MHD stability solver & optimizer for magnetic confinement fusion devices”

    2608.01750
  34. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-02
    The -2.5 curvature law is not universal for cosmic-ray turbulence

    Eleonora Puzzoni +4 · “Sub-sonic compressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence I. Alfv\'enic and fast-magnetosonic injection, amplitude dependence, and compressibility effects”

    2608.01386
  35. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-02
    DC sheath electrons, not ohmic heating, drive high-pressure CCPs

    Anuravi Sharma +3 · “Investigation of high pressure capacitively coupled plasmas produced by electrons energized in DC sheath at powered electrode”

    2608.01030
  36. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-01
    Mixing bound and free electron response predicts plasma stopping

    Zachary A Johnson +3 · “Ion stopping from bound and free electrons in plasmas: A channel-mixed RPA approach with average-atom orbitals”

    2608.00797
  37. stat.ML arXiv submitted 2026-08-01
    One round trip predicts rollout error without ground truth

    Alexander Scheinker · “Round-Trip Consistency: Bidirectional Diffusion Models Can Predict Their Own Rollout Errors”

    2608.00675
  38. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-31
    Trans-Alfvénic shear stabilizes the kink but breeds new instabilities

    Daniel W. Crews +1 · “On the ideal stability of the sheared-flow Z pinch”

    2608.00291
  39. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-31
    Stellarators can breed runaways

    Ida Ekmark +1 · “Runaway Electrons in Stellarators: Unlikely or Unavoidable?”

    2607.29523
  40. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-31
    One neural closure reproduces both Landau damping regimes

    Samuel Burles +2 · “A Neural Operator Closure for Landau Damping in Electrostatic Plasma”

    2607.29364
  41. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-31
    Two-ion screening shifts fusion rates by up to 25%

    Hanxiang Huang +5 · “Nonlinear polarization effects on plasma screening for thermonuclear reactions”

    2607.29362
  42. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-31
    Spiral phase imaging sees plasma scales below phase-contrast cutoff

    Jigme Zangpo +3 · “Comparative analysis of wavenumber response in phase contrast and spiral phase imaging systems for plasma diagnostics”

    2607.29307
  43. physics.flu-dyn arXiv submitted 2026-07-31
    Spherical bubbles accelerate forever

    De-Hua Zhang +5 · “Nonlinear asymptotic bubble growth in single-mode spherical Rayleigh-Taylor instability”

    2607.29260
  44. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-31
    Nanosecond pulses boost microplasma nitrogen output 6x

    Nikolaos Chazapis (LSPM) +7 · “Proof of operation of a micro-hollow cathode discharge driven by a true ns-pulsed high voltage: emission properties and atomic nitrogen production”

    2607.29239
  45. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-31
    Micro-burst pulses lift plasma-thruster specific impulse 278%

    Patrick W. Schools +5 · “Pulse Shaping Increases Efficiency in Pulsed Plasma Accelerators”

    2607.28976
  46. astro-ph.SR arXiv submitted 2026-07-30
    Quiet-Sun thermometer split measures a transported electron tail

    Victor Edmonds · “Recovering Electron-Distribution Information from the Quiet-Sun Temperature Discrepancy”

    2607.28530
  47. astro-ph.SR arXiv submitted 2026-07-30
    A 2.4× solar temperature gap is a kinetic measurement

    Victor Edmonds · “Recovering Electron-Distribution Information from the Quiet-Sun Temperature Discrepancy”

    2607.28530
  48. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-30
    Hybrid ions-electrons recover high-frequency solar-wind waves

    F. N. deOliveira-Lopes +7 · “Variational Formulation of a Hybrid Kinetic and Gyrokinetic Model for Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas”

    2607.28305
  49. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-30
    Plasma centrifuges can beat rotors without maxing peak spin

    Drue P. Hood-McFadden +2 · “Electromagnetically Driven Thermal Dissipation Scaling in Plasma Centrifuges for Mass Separation”

    2607.28208
  50. physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-30
    Plasma centrifuge matches rotor-driven separation at lower speed

    Drue P. Hood-McFadden +2 · “Electromagnetically Driven Thermal Dissipation Scaling in Plasma Centrifuges for Mass Separation”

    2607.28208