Material equation-of-state (EOS) models, generally providing the pressure and internal
energy for a given density and temperature, are required to close the equations of …

Rayleigh-Taylor instability growth is shown to be hydrodynamically scale invariant in
convergent cylindrical implosions for targets that varied in radial dimension and implosion …

Hohlraums are hollow cylindrical cavities with high-Z material walls used to convert laser
energy into uniform x-ray radiation drives for inertial confinement fusion capsule implosions …

Herein, recent progress on indirectly-driven inertial confinement fusion (ICF) work at the
National Ignition Facility (NIF) is briefly reviewed. An analytic criteria for an ICF burning …

Producing a burning plasma in the laboratory has been a long-standing milestone for the
plasma physics community. A burning plasma is a state where alpha particle deposition from …

Indirect drive converts high power laser light into x-rays using small high-Z cavities called
hohlraums. X-rays generated at the hohlraum walls drive a capsule filled with deuterium …

This paper reviews the many twists and turns in the long journey that culminated in ignition
in late 2022 using the laser heated indirect-drive approach to imploding DT filled targets at …

We perform first-principles path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) and density functional theory
molecular dynamics (DFT-MD) calculations to explore warm dense matter states of …

The implosion efficiency in inertial confinement fusion depends on the degree of stagnated
fuel compression, density uniformity, sphericity, and minimum residual kinetic energy …

Extreme optical fluences, much beyond the damage threshold of conventional optics, are of
interest for a range of high-energy-density physics applications. Nonlinear interactions of …