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Author(s): C. A. Thomas et al. Inertial confinement fusion is likely to require significant improvements in technology and design for large targets to implode at high driver energies. To assess the potential for benefits, we report on nuclear performance as a function of target radius ${R}_{\mathrm{t}}$ in direct-drive cryogenic … [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 045101] Published Mon Jan 26, 2026

Author(s): Mingxuan Wei, Siyu Chen, Yu Wang, Pei-Lun He, Xichen Hu, Mingyang Zhu, Hao Xu, Weijun Zhou, Jiao Jia, Xulei Ge, Lin Lu, Boyuan Li, Feng Liu, Min Chen, Liming Chen, Pavel Polynkin, Jian-Xing Li, Wenchao Yan, and Jie Zhang Vortex $γ$ photons carrying orbital angular momenta (OAM) hold great potential for various applications. However, their generation remains a great challenge. Here, we successfully generate sub-MeV vortex $γ$ photons...

Author(s): H. Choudhury, A. Battey, C. Paz-Soldan, J. Lestz, N. Leuthold, A. Lvovskiy, C. Marini, J. Barr, W. Heidbrink, D. Spong, S. Tang, B. Van Compernolle, Q. Zhang, Y. Zhang, and X. Tang Helicon waves (also known as whistler waves) satisfying the normal wave-particle cyclotron resonance are observed to limit the growth and maximum energy of relativistic electrons (REs) in low-density Ohmic DIII-D tokamak plasmas. Following the application...

Author(s): Si-Bo Xu, Jia-Ji Sun, Shan Wang, Jing-Huan Li, Xu-Zhi Zhou, Daniel B. Graham, Yu-Fei Hao, Qiu-Gang Zong, Chao Yue, Yoshiharu Omura, and Yuri V. Khotyaintsev Studies have long suggested that shocks can undergo cyclical self-reformation as a type of shock nonstationarity. Until now, providing solid evidence for shock reformation in spacecraft observation and identifying its generating mechanisms remain challenging. In this Letter, by...

Author(s): Tiannan Wu and Shaojie Wang Global gyrokinetic simulation of the ion temperature gradient mode shows that the radial electric field, ${E}_{r}$ well, upshifts the critical temperature gradient near the magnetic axis, in the weak but not in the strong magnetic shear ($s$) configuration. The geometric curvature effect almost canc… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 015102] Published Mon Jan 05, 2026

Author(s): T. Jitsuk, M. J. Pueschel, P. W. Terry, and A. Di Siena Interactions between MHD-scale tearing modes (TMs) and ion-gyroradius-scale trapped-electron modes (TEMs) in a fusion plasma are simulated with global gyrokinetics, using a consistent set of fixed equilibrium profiles. Unstable core TMs nonlinearly couple and transfer energy to smaller-scale stable … [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 015101] Published Fri Jan 02, 2026

Author(s): Wenxiang Hu, Gabriel Aeppli, Christopher Arrell, Marco Calvi, Sergio Carbajo, Andreas Dax, Yunpei Deng, Philipp Dijkstal, David Dunning, Simon Gerber, Martin Huppert, Stefan Neppl, Sven Reiche, Thomas Schietinger, Neil Thompson, Alexandre Trisorio, Carlo Vicario, Alexander Zholents, and Eduard Prat Mode locking—a laser technique that revolutionized optical physics—has been extended to x rays, producing stable trains of attosecond pulses...