* highlights student work
** highlights postdoc/scientist work
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, submitted, 2025.
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, Observation of Turbulent Magnetic Reconnection Onset in the Earth Magnetotail, to be submitted, 2025.
L. Wang**, Y. Yuan*, C. F. Dong, X. Li**, Y. Zhang**, Five-Moment Three-Fluid Modeling of Magnetic Reconnection in Partially Ionized Plasmas, to be submitted, 2025.
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., in press (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 Different Turbulence Intensities Around the X-line of Magnetotail Reconnection, submitted, 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).