Plasma physics in strong-field regimes: Theories and simulations

Plasma Physics and Numerical Simulations

Plasma is a partially or fully ionized gas. Ionized gas contains free electrons and ions which carry electric charges. Thus, plasma is subject to electromagnetic forces and can react to external electric and magnetic fields. Moreover, since plasma contains free charge carriers, their relative motion can also set internal electric and magnetic fields, which in turn also influence their dynamics....

Strong-field and attosecond physics in solids

We review the status of strong-field and attosecond processes in bulk transparent solids near the Keldysh tunneling limit. For high enough fields and low-frequency excitations, the optical and electronic properties of dielectrics can be transiently and reversibly modified within the applied pulse. In Ghimire et al (2011 Phys. Rev. Lett. 107 167407) non-parabolic band effects were seen in photon...

Microcanonical initial distribution strategy for classical simulations in strong field physics

Numerical methods for plasma physics in collisional regimes

G. Dimarco†, Q. Li, L. Pareschi and B. Yan Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Ferrara, via Machiavelli 35, 44121, Italy Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences (CMS), The Annenberg Center, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125, USA Department of Mathematics, University of California and Los Angeles, Math Sciences Bu...

Heavy Quarkonium Physics from Effective Field Theories

I review recent progress in heavy quarkonium physics from an effective field theory perspective. In this unifying framework, I discuss advances in perturbative calculations for low-lying quarkonium observables and in lattice calculations for high-lying ones, and progress and lasting puzzles in quarkonium production. PACS. 12.38.-t – 12.39.Hg – 13.20.Gd