INDEX
Every paper Pith has read and judged, in one searchable index.
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physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-13Fast spin could stabilize short mirror fusion devices
Richard Fitzpatrick · “Macroscopic Stability of a Rapidly Rotating Theta Pinch”
2608.13485 -
astro-ph.SR arXiv submitted 2026-08-13Turbulence 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 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-11Surrogates predict ITER particle transport 100,000x faster
Yashika Ghai +3 · “Machine-learning surrogate models for nonlinear energetic-particle transport predictions in ITER”
2608.11058 -
physics.acc-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-11One number ε marks when beam collisions brake and reverse
W. Zhang +2 · “High-energy electron-positron beam collisions with large-angle disruptions”
2608.10988 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-11Gas 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 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-11Thermal 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 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-10Impurities 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 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-09Two 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 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-09One 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 -
physics.acc-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-09Energy window shift doubles electron bunch length
Zhihao Chen +7 · “Terahertz-based longitudinal phase space diagnostics of laser wakefield accelerated electron beams”
2608.08586 -
astro-ph.HE arXiv submitted 2026-08-09Weak ionization fragments reconnection into small plasmoids
Yue Hu +5 · “Plasmoid-Mediated 2D Magnetic Reconnection in Partially Ionized Plasmas”
2608.08448 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-08One 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 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-08Tri-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 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-08A 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 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-071D 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 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-07Fission 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 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-06New equations model Alfvén turbulence on dipole field lines
Ian M. DesJardin +3 · “The Equations of Reduced Magnetohydrodynamics in Dipole Coordinates”
2608.06617 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-06One 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 -
hep-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-06Electron 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 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-06Heat 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 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-06One 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 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-06Neural 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 -
nlin.CD arXiv submitted 2026-08-05Chaotic 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 -
astro-ph.SR arXiv submitted 2026-08-05Steady |B| waves solve the solar wind speed spike puzzle
Yuliang Ding +8 · “Spherically Polarized Alfv\'en Waves and the Gosling Boost”
2608.05091 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-05Laser-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 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-045,522 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 -
physics.space-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-04Twin 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 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-04Two 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 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-04Twisted 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 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-03Compact 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 -
astro-ph.SR arXiv submitted 2026-08-03Ground 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 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-03High-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 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-03Solver 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 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-02The -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 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-02DC 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 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-01Mixing 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 -
stat.ML arXiv submitted 2026-08-01One round trip predicts rollout error without ground truth
Alexander Scheinker · “Round-Trip Consistency: Bidirectional Diffusion Models Can Predict Their Own Rollout Errors”
2608.00675 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-31Trans-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 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-31Stellarators can breed runaways
Ida Ekmark +1 · “Runaway Electrons in Stellarators: Unlikely or Unavoidable?”
2607.29523 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-31One neural closure reproduces both Landau damping regimes
Samuel Burles +2 · “A Neural Operator Closure for Landau Damping in Electrostatic Plasma”
2607.29364 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-31Two-ion screening shifts fusion rates by up to 25%
Hanxiang Huang +5 · “Nonlinear polarization effects on plasma screening for thermonuclear reactions”
2607.29362 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-31Spiral 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 -
physics.flu-dyn arXiv submitted 2026-07-31Spherical bubbles accelerate forever
De-Hua Zhang +5 · “Nonlinear asymptotic bubble growth in single-mode spherical Rayleigh-Taylor instability”
2607.29260 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-31Nanosecond 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 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-31Micro-burst pulses lift plasma-thruster specific impulse 278%
Patrick W. Schools +5 · “Pulse Shaping Increases Efficiency in Pulsed Plasma Accelerators”
2607.28976 -
astro-ph.SR arXiv submitted 2026-07-30Quiet-Sun thermometer split measures a transported electron tail
Victor Edmonds · “Recovering Electron-Distribution Information from the Quiet-Sun Temperature Discrepancy”
2607.28530 -
astro-ph.SR arXiv submitted 2026-07-30A 2.4× solar temperature gap is a kinetic measurement
Victor Edmonds · “Recovering Electron-Distribution Information from the Quiet-Sun Temperature Discrepancy”
2607.28530 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-30Hybrid 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 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-30Plasma 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 -
physics.plasm-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-30Plasma 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