Instabilities and mixing in inertial confinement fusion

Y Zhou, JD Sadler, OA Hurricane - Annual Review of Fluid …, 2025 - annualreviews.org
By imploding fuel of hydrogen isotopes, inertial confinement fusion (ICF) aims to create
conditions that mimic those in the Sun's core. This is fluid dynamics in an extreme regime …

[HTML][HTML] From density response to energy functionals and back: An ab initio perspective on matter under extreme conditions

Z Moldabekov, J Vorberger, T Dornheim - Progress in Particle and Nuclear …, 2024 - Elsevier
Energy functionals serve as the basis for different models and methods in quantum and
classical many-particle physics. Arguably, one of the most successful and widely used …

Energy principles of scientific breakeven in an inertial fusion experiment

OA Hurricane, DA Callahan, DT Casey… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Fusion “scientific breakeven”(ie, unity target gain G target, total fusion energy out> laser
energy input) has been achieved for the first time (here, G target∼ 1.5). This Letter reports …

Design of the first fusion experiment to achieve target energy gain

AL Kritcher, AB Zylstra, CR Weber, OA Hurricane… - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
In this work we present the design of the first controlled fusion laboratory experiment to
reach target gain G> 1 N221204 (5 December 2022)[Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 065102 (2024) …

Hohlraum reheating from burning NIF implosions

MS Rubery, MD Rosen, N Aybar, OL Landen, L Divol… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
As fusion experiments at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) approach and exceed
breakeven, energy from the burning capsule is predicted to couple to the gold walls and …

Observations and properties of the first laboratory fusion experiment to exceed a target gain of unity

A Pak, AB Zylstra, KL Baker, DT Casey, E Dewald… - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
An indirect-drive inertial fusion experiment on the National Ignition Facility was driven using
2.05 MJ of laser light at a wavelength of 351 nm and produced 3.1±0.16 MJ of total fusion …

[HTML][HTML] Ab initio density response and local field factor of warm dense hydrogen

T Dornheim, S Schwalbe, P Tolias… - Matter and Radiation …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We present quasi-exact ab initio path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) results for the partial static
density responses and local field factors of hydrogen in the warm dense matter regime, from …

Dynamic exchange correlation effects in the strongly coupled electron liquid

T Dornheim, P Tolias, F Kalkavouras, ZA Moldabekov… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
The first quasiexact ab initio path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) investigation of the dynamic
local field correction G ̃ (q, zl; rs, Θ) in the imaginary Matsubara frequency domain is …

The impact of low-mode symmetry on inertial fusion energy output in the burning plasma state

JE Ralph, JS Ross, AB Zylstra, AL Kritcher… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Indirect Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion Experiments on the National Ignition
Facility (NIF) have achieved a burning plasma state with neutron yields exceeding 170 kJ …

[HTML][HTML] Ab initio path integral Monte Carlo simulations of warm dense two-component systems without fixed nodes: Structural properties

T Dornheim, S Schwalbe, MP Böhme… - The Journal of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We present extensive new ab initio path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) results for a variety of
structural properties of warm dense hydrogen and beryllium. To deal with the fermion sign …