Reference¶
Section author: Axel Huebl
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Citation¶
BibTeX code:
@inproceedings{PIConGPU2013,
author = {Bussmann, M. and Burau, H. and Cowan, T. E. and Debus, A. and Huebl, A. and Juckeland, G. and Kluge, T. and Nagel, W. E. and Pausch, R. and Schmitt, F. and Schramm, U. and Schuchart, J. and Widera, R.},
title = {Radiative Signatures of the Relativistic Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis},
series = {SC '13},
year = {2013},
isbn = {978-1-4503-2378-9},
location = {Denver, Colorado},
pages = {5:1--5:12},
articleno = {5},
numpages = {12},
url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2503210.2504564},
doi = {10.1145/2503210.2504564},
acmid = {2504564},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
}
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Publications¶
The following publications are sorted by topics. Papers covering multiple topics will be listed multiple times. In the end, a list of all publications in chronological order is given with more details. If you want to add your publication to the list as well please feel free to contact us or open a pull request directly.
Application of PIConGPU in various physics scenarios¶
In the following, a list of publications describing using PIConGPU is given in various cases.
Laser plasma electron acceleration¶
Laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) with self-truncated ionization-injection (STII) [Couperus2017]
PhD thesis on experimental aspects of LWFA with STII [Couperus2018],
PhD thesis on theoretical ascpects of self-focusing during LWFA with STII [Pausch2019]
Hybrid laser-driven/beam-driven plasms acceleration [Kurz2021]
Laser plasma ion acceleration¶
Proton acceleration from cryogenic hydrogen jets [Obst2017]
Mass-Limited, Near-Critical, micron-scale, spherical targets [Hilz2018]
PhD thesis on theoretical aspects of mass-limited, near-critical, micron-scale, spherical targets [Huebl2019]
All-optical stuctering of laser-accelerated protons [Obst-Huebl2018]
PhD thesis on laser-driven proton beam structering [Obst-Huebl2019]
Laser-ion multi-species acceleration [Huebl2020]
Laser plasma light sources and diagnostics¶
PhD thesis on radiation from LWFA [Pausch2019]
Laser-driven x-ray and proton sources [Ostermayr2020]
Betatron x-ray diagnostic for beam decoherence [Koehler2019], [Koehler2021]
Astrophysics¶
Simulating the Kelvin Helmholtz instability (KHI) [Bussmann2013]
Visualizing the KHI [Huebl2014]
Theoretical model of the radiation evolution during the KHI [Pausch2017]
PhD thesis covering the KHI radiation [Pausch2019]
Machine Learning¶
Methods used in PIConGPU software¶
In the following, a list of references is given, sorted by topics, that describe PIConGPU as a software. References to publications of implemented methods that were developed by other groups are also given for completeness. These references are marked by an asterisk.
General code references¶
First publication on PIConGPU [Burau2010]
Currently main reference [Bussmann2013]
Most up-to-date reference [Huebl2019]
Field solvers¶
Yee field solver* [Yee1966]
Lehe fields solver* [Lehe2013]
High-Order Finite Difference solver* [Ghrist2000]
Particle pushers¶
Boris pusher* [Boris1970]
Vay pusher* [Vay2008]
Reduces Landau-Lifshitz pusher* [Vranic2016]
Higuera-Cary pusher [Higuera2017]
Current deposition¶
Esirkepov method* [Esirkepov2001]
Villasenor and Buneman method* [Villasenior1991]
Ionization-physics extensions¶
Barrier suppression ionization (BSI)* [ClementiRaimondi1963], [ClementiRaimondi1967], [MulserBauer2010]
Tunneling ionization - Keldysh* [Keldysh]
Tunneling ionization - Ammosov-Delone-Krainov (ADK)* [DeloneKrainov1998], [BauerMulser1999]
Master thesis - model implementation [Garten2015]
Collisional ionization [FLYCHK2005], [More1985]
ionization current* [Mulser1998]
Binary_collisions¶
fundamental alogorithm* [Perez2012]
improvements and corrections* [Higginson2020]
QED code extensions¶
Various methods applicable in PIC codes* [Gonoskov2015]
Diploma thesis - model implementation [Burau2016]
Diagnostic methods¶
classical radiation: [Pausch2012], [Pausch2014], [Pausch2018], [Pausch2019]
phase space analysis: [Huebl2014]
beam emittance: [Rudat2019]
coherent transistion radiation (CTR): [Carstens2019]
Visualization¶
first post-processing implementation: [Zuehl2011], [Ungethuem2012]
first in-situ visualization: [Schneider2012a], [Schneider2012b]
Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilty: [Huebl2014]
in-situ visualization with ISAAC: [Matthes2016], [Matthes2016b]
in-situ particle rendering: [Meyer2018]
Input/Output¶
parallel HDF5, ADIOS1, compression, data reduction and I/O performance model [Huebl2017]
HPC kernels and benchmarks¶
proceedings of the SC’13 [Bussmann2013]
Theses¶
Diploma thesis: first post-processing rendering [Zuehl2011]
Diploma thesis: first in-situ rendering [Schneider2012b]
Diploma thesis: In-situ radiation calculation [Pausch2012]
Diploma thesis: Algorithms, LWFA injection, Phase Space analysis [Huebl2014]
Master thesis: Ionization methods [Garten2015]
Diploma thesis: QED scattering processes [Burau2016]
Diploma thesis: In-situ live visualization [Matthes2016]
PhD thesis: LWFA injection using STII (mainly experiment) [Couperus2018]
Bachelor thesis: In-situ live visualization [Meyer2018]
Master thesis: Beam emittance and automated parameter scans [Rudat2019]
PhD thesis: Radiation during LWFA and KHI, radiative corrections [Pausch2019]
PhD thesis: LWFA betatron radiation (mainly experiment) [Koehler2019]
PhD thesis: LWFA Coherent transistion radiation diagnostics (CTR) (mainly experiment) [Zarini2019]
PhD thesis: Laser ion acceleration (mainly experiment) [Obst-Huebl2019]
PhD thesis: Exascale simulations with PIConGPU, laser ion acceleration [Huebl2019]
Bachelor thesis: Synthetic coherent transistion radiation [Carstens2019]
List of PIConGPU references in chronological order¶
- Burau2010
Burau, H., et al., A fully relativistic particle-in-cell code for a GPU cluster., IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 38(10 PART 2), 2831–2839 (2010), https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2010.2064310
- Zuehl2011(1,2)
Zühl, L., Visualisierung von Laser-Plasma-Simulationen, Diploma Thesis at Technische Universität Dresden & Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf for the German Degree “Diplom-Informatiker” (2011), https://www.hzdr.de/db/Cms?pOid=35687
- Schneider2012a
Schneider, B., Gestengesteuerte visuelle Datenanalyse einer Laser-Plasma-Simulation, Student Thesis at Technische Universität Dresden & Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf (2012), https://www.hzdr.de/db/Cms?pOid=37242
- Schneider2012b(1,2)
Schneider, B., In Situ Visualization of a Laser-Plasma Simulation, Diploma Thesis at Technische Universität Dresden & Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf for the German Degree “Diplom-Informatiker” (2012), https://www.hzdr.de/db/Cms?pOid=40353
- Pausch2012(1,2)
Pausch, R., Electromagnetic Radiation from Relativistic Electrons as Characteristic Signature of their Dynamics, Diploma Thesis at Technische Universität Dresden & Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf for the German Degree “Diplom-Physiker” (2012), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.843510
- Ungethuem2012
Ungethüm, A., Simulation and visualisation of the electro-magnetic field around a stimulated electron, Student Thesis at Technische Universität Dresden & Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf (2012), https://www.hzdr.de/db/Cms?pOid=38508
- Bussmann2013(1,2,3)
Bussmann, M. et al., Radiative signatures of the relativistic Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, SC ’13 Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (pp. 5-1-5–12), https://doi.org/10.1145/2503210.2504564
- Huebl2014
Huebl, A. et al., Visualizing the Radiation of the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 42.10 (2014), https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2014.2327392
- Pausch2014
Pausch, R., Debus, A., Widera, R. et al., How to test and verify radiation diagnostics simulations within particle-in-cell frameworks, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 740, 250–256 (2014), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2013.10.073
- Huebl2014
Huebl, A., Injection Control for Electrons in Laser-Driven Plasma Wakes on the Femtosecond Time Scale, Diploma Thesis at Technische Universität Dresden & Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf for the German Degree “Diplom-Physiker” (2014), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15924
- Garten2015(1,2)
Garten, M., Modellierung und Validierung von Feldionisation in parallelen Particle-in-Cell-Codes, Master Thesis at Technische Universität Dresden & Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf (2015), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.202500
- Burau2016(1,2)
Burau, H., Entwicklung und Überprüfung eines Photonenmodells für die Abstrahlung durch hochenergetische Elektronen, Diploma Thesis at Technische Universität Dresden & Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf for the German Degree “Diplom-Physiker” (2016), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.192116
- Matthes2016(1,2)
Matthes, A., In-Situ Visualisierung und Streaming von Plasmasimulationsdaten, Diploma Thesis at Technische Universität Dresden & Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf for the German Degree “Diplom-Informatiker” (2016), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.55329
- Matthes2016b
Matthes, A., Huebl, A., Widera, R., Grottel, S., Gumhold, S., Bussmann, M., In situ, steerable, hardware-independent and data-structure agnostic visualization with ISAAC, Supercomputing Frontiers and Innovations, [S.l.], v. 3, n. 4, p. 30-48, oct. 2016, https://doi.org/10.14529/jsfi160403
- Pausch2017
Pausch, R., Bussmann, M., Huebl, A., Schramm, U., Steiniger, K., Widera, R. and Debus, A., Identifying the linear phase of the relativistic Kelvin-Helmholtz instability and measuring its growth rate via radiation, Phys. Rev. E 96, 013316 - Published 26 July 2017, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.96.013316
- Couperus2017
Couperus, J. P. et al., Demonstration of a beam loaded nanocoulomb-class laser wakefield accelerator, Nature Communications volume 8, Article number: 487 (2017), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00592-7
- Huebl2017
Huebl, A. et al., On the Scalability of Data Reduction Techniques in Current and Upcoming HPC Systems from an Application Perspective, ISC High Performance Workshops 2017, LNCS 10524, pp. 15-29 (2017), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67630-2_2
- Obst2017
Obst, L., Göde, S., Rehwald, M. et al., Efficient laser-driven proton acceleration from cylindrical and planar cryogenic hydrogen jets, Sci Rep 7, 10248 (2017), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-10589-3
- Pausch2018
Pausch, R., Debus, A., Huebl, A. at al., Quantitatively consistent computation of coherent and incoherent radiation in particle-in-cell codes — A general form factor formalism for macro-particles, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 909, 419–422 (2018), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2018.02.020
- Couperus2018(1,2)
Couperus, J. P., Optimal beam loading in a nanocoulomb-class laser wakefield accelerator, PhD Thesis at Technische Universität Dresden & Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf (2018), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1463710
- Meyer2018(1,2)
Meyer, F., Entwicklung eines Partikelvisualisierers für In-Situ-Simulationen, Bachelor Thesis at Technische Universität Dresden & Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf (2018), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1423296
- Hilz2018
Hilz, P, et al., Isolated proton bunch acceleration by a petawatt laser pulse, Nature Communications, 9(1), 423 (2018), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02663-1
- Obst-Huebl2018
Obst-Huebl, L., Ziegler, T., Brack, FE. et al., All-optical structuring of laser-driven proton beam profiles, Nat Commun 9, 5292 (2018), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07756-z
- Rudat2019(1,2)
Rudat, S., Laser Wakefield Acceleration Simulation as a Service, Master Thesis at Technische Universität Dresden & Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf (2019), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3529741
- Pausch2019(1,2,3,4,5)
Pausch, R., Synthetic radiation diagnostics as a pathway for studying plasma dynamics from advanced accelerators to astrophysical observations, PhD Thesis at Technische Universität Dresden & Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf (2019), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3616045
- Koehler2019(1,2)
Köhler, A., Transverse Electron Beam Dynamics in the Beam Loading Regime, PhD Thesis at Technische Universität Dresden & Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf (2019), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3342589
- Zarini2019
Zarini, O., Measuring sub-femtosecond temporal structures in multi-ten kiloampere electron beams, PhD Thesis at Technische Universität Dresden & Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf (2019), https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:d120-qucosa2-339775
- Obst-Huebl2019(1,2)
Obst-Hübl, L., Achieving optimal laser-proton acceleration through multi-parameter interaction control, PhD Thesis at Technische Universität Dresden & Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf (2019), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3252952
- Huebl2019(1,2,3)
Huebl, A., PIConGPU: Predictive Simulations of Laser-Particle Accelerators with Manycore Hardware, PhD Thesis at Technische Universität Dresden & Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf (2019), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3266820
- Carstens2019(1,2)
Carstens, F.-O., Synthetic characterization of ultrashort electron bunches using transition radiation, Bachelor Thesis at Technische Universität Dresden & Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf (2019), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3469663
- Ostermayr2020
Ostermayr, T. M., et al., Laser-driven x-ray and proton micro-source and application to simultaneous single-shot bi-modal radiographic imaging, Nature Communications volume 11, Article number: 6174 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19838-y
- Huebl2020
Huebl, A. et al., Spectral control via multi-species effects in PW-class laser-ion acceleration, Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 62 124003 (2020), https://doi.org/0.1088/1361-6587/abbe33
- Kurz2021
Kurz, T. et al., Demonstration of a compact plasma accelerator powered by laser-accelerated electron beams, Nature Communications volume 12, Article number: 2895 (2021), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23000-7
- Koehler2021
Koehler, A., Pausch, R., Bussmann, M., et al., Restoring betatron phase coherence in a beam-loaded laser-wakefield accelerator, Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 24, 091302 – 20 September 2021, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.24.091302
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