* highlights student work
** highlights postdoc/scientist work
H. Ji, J. Yoo, P. Shi, E. Jung, K. Maheshwari, A. Robbins, S. Son, A. Stanier, Y. Ren, S. Bose, D. Corl, K. Corrigan, R. Cutler, W. Daughton, R. Ellis, G. Gettelfinger, R. Hatcher, P. Heitzenroeder, F. Hoffmann, J. Jara-Almonte, M. Kalish, T. Kozub, E. Merino, W. Que, B. Smith, J. Wallace, X. Zhao, S. Avrutsky, N. Crocker, S. Dorfman, Y. Doke, C. Dunn, W. Fox, B. Li, X. Li, C. Myers, S. Okazaki, J. Pawlak, T. Rhee, B. Seo, T. Suzuki, Y. Zhang, S. Bale, A. Bhattacharjee, T. Carter, C. F. Dong, J. Drake, J. Egedal, E. Gilson, M. Inomoto, J. Menard, Y. Ono, S. Prager, J. Sarff, H. Tanabe, M. Yamada, The FLARE Facility, submitted. arXiv:2608.17332
Q. Xiong, H. Zhan, S. Huang, Z. Yuan, S. Wang, F. Sahraoui, C. F. Dong, Q. Lu, K. Jiang, H. Wu, S. Yan, Theoretical Modeling of the Peak Reconnection Rate Scaling with Current Sheet Thickness, submitted, 2026.
L. Wang**, C. F. Dong, Y.-M. Huang, Y. Yuan*, X. Li**, and Y. Zhang**, Transition of Magnetic Reconnection Regimes in Partially Ionized Plasmas, ApJ 1008, 123 (2026). arXiv:2602.23683
Y. Jin**, Y. Shi, R. Sutherland, Z. Huang**, C. F. Dong, The internal nebular attenuation curve of three-dimensional turbulent HII regions, A&A 710, A392 (2026) (2026). arXiv:2605.11377
X. Li**, R. Wang, C. F. Dong, L. Wang**, N. F. Loureiro, Q. Lu, S. Lu, A. Stanier, W. Daughton, J. E. Stawarz, H. Ji, Y.-M. Huang, A. Bhattacharjee, M. Zhou, J. L. Burch, D. Gershman, Observation of Turbulent Magnetic Reconnection Onset in Earth Magnetotail, submitted, 2025.
X. Li**, C. F. Dong, L. Z. Hadid, S. Aizawa, C. Zhang**, H. Zhou**, L. Wang**, J. Gao**, J. A. Slavin, Properties and Radial Evolution of Solar Wind Turbulence Near Mercury’s Orbit, ApJ Letters 1005, L1 (2026). arXiv:2604.21196
C. Zhang**, C. F. Dong, X. Li**, H.-W. Shen, J. S. Halekas, T. Phan, C. Mazelle, Y. Harada, H. Zhou**, J. Gao**, L. Wang**, S. Curry, D. L. Mitchell, Direct Observations of Magnetic Reconnection in the Solar Wind Current Sheets near Mars, ApJ Letters 1004, L45 (2026). arXiv:2606.16105
L. Song**, M. Zhou, L. Wang**, Z. Zhong, X. Li**, C. F. Dong, C. Hou, R. Tang, Y. Yi, X. Deng, Fully Kinetic Simulations of Ion-Acoustic Waves in Asymmetric Reconnection With Cold Ions, Geophys. Res. Lett. 53, e2025GL118984 (2026).
H. Zhou**, Y. Chen, C. F. Dong, L. Wang, Y. Zou, B. M. Walsh, G. Tóth, Planar Collisionless Shock Simulations with the Semi-implicit Particle-in-cell Model FLEKS, ApJS 282, 12 (2026). arXiv:2506.08384
X. Li**, C. F. Dong, H. Ji, C. Zhang**, L. Wang**, B. Giles, H. Zhou**, R. Chen, Y. Qi, Observation of a Knotted Electron Diffusion Region in Earth's Magnetotail Reconnection, Geophys. Res. Lett. 52, e2025GL117612 (2025). arXiv:2507.10842
X. Li**, R. Wang, C. F. Dong, Q. Lu, S. Lu, J. E. Stawarz, Y. Qi, L. Wang**, J. L. Burch, Investigation of the Diffusion Region With Varying Turbulence Intensities Around the X-Line of Magnetotail Reconnection, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics 130, e2025JA034426 (2025).
X. Xie**, C. Shen, K. K. Reeves, B. Chen, X. Li, F. Guo, S. Yu, Y. Wei, C. F. Dong, Anisotropic Turbulent Flows Observed in Above-the-loop-top Regions during Solar Flares, ApJ Letters 984, L27 (2025). arXiv:2503.13827
P. T. Campbell**, B. K. Russell*, C. F. Dong, G. Fiksel, P. M. Nilson, A. G. R. Thomas, C. A. Walsh, K. M. Krushelnick, and L. Willingale, Formation of collisionless shocks driven by strongly magnetized relativistic electrons in the laboratory, Phys. Rev. Research 6, L012016 (2024).
S. Yang*, L. Wang, C. F. Dong, Discovery of double hall pattern associated with collisionless magnetic reconnection in dusty plasmas, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc 523, 928–933 (2023). arXiv:2206.08553
D. Li*, Y. Chen, C. F. Dong, L. Wang, G. Toth, Numerical study of magnetic island coalescence using magnetohydrodynamics with adaptively embedded particle-in-cell model, AIP Advances 13, 015126 (2023). arXiv:2212.07980
C. F. Dong, L. Wang, Y.-M. Huang, L. Comisso, T. A. Sandstrom, A. Bhattacharjee, Reconnection-driven energy cascade in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, Science Advances 8, eabn7627 (2022). arXiv:2210.10736. News Stories in PPPL, EurekAlert, Phys.org, Scienmag.
C. F. Dong, L. Wang, Y.-M. Huang, L. Comisso, A. Bhattacharjee, Role of the Plasmoid Instability in Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 165101 (2018). arXiv:1804.07361
A. E. Raymond*, C. F. Dong, A. McKelvey, C. Zulick, N. Alexander, A. Bhattacharjee, P. T. Campbell, H. Chen, V. Chvykov, E. Del Rio, P. Fitzsimmons, W. Fox, B. Hou, A. Maksimchuk, C. Mileham, J. Nees, P. M. Nilson, C. Stoeckl, A. G. R. Thomas, M. S. Wei, V. Yanovsky, K. Krushelnick, and L. Willingale, Relativistic electron driven magnetic reconnection in the laboratory, Phys. Rev. E 98, 043207 (2018). arXiv:1610.06866
C.F. Dong, M.M. Cowee, and D. Winske, Plasma and wave properties downstream of Martian bow shock: Hybrid simulations, in "Los Alamos Space Weather Summer School Research Reports", LA-UR 13-29060, Los Alamos National Lab (2013).
X. Zheng, Y.H. Chen, Z.Q. Hu, G.W. Wang, F. Huang, C.F. Dong, and M. Y. Yu, Dust voids in collision-dominated plasmas with negative ions, Phys. Plasmas 16, 023701 (2009).