Publications

1. K. M. Amodeo, E. J. Davies, D. K. Spaulding, M. Millot, and S. T. Stewart, “Transitional Melt in the Shock Front: Reinterpreting SiO₂ Shock Temperatures and the Melt Curve,” submitted to the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.

2. T. Cordova, E. V. Marley, D. A. Chin, R. A. London, H. A. Scott, M. K. G. Kruse, T. Döppner, F. N. Beg, F. Coppari, M. Millot, J. Emig, S. B. Hansen, P. M. Nilson, P. Sterne, and M. J. MacDonald, "Ionization and temperature measurements in warm dense copper using X-ray absorption Spectroscopy,” Physical Review Research 8, 013223 (2026); https://doi.org/10.1103/7vf4-flqv.

3. Y.-J. Kim, G. Righi, O. R. Deluigi, E. M. Bringa, T. E. Lockard, R. E. Rudd, C. J. Ruestes, C. V. Stan, C. E. Wehrenberg, A. E. Gleason, M. A. Meyers, and H.-S. Park, "Dynamic strength of iron under pressure-temperature conditions of Earth’s inner core," Nature Communications 17, 5731 (2026); https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-72210-4.

4. T. Kovacevic, D. Holdried-Chernoff, B. Militzer, and B. Buffet, “Constraining the Dynamo Layers in Jupiter and Saturn with Observations and Scaling Laws,” Astrophysical Journal 1002, 135 (2026); https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae5bc1.

5. R. P. Lee, B. J. Winjum, S. J. Spencer, S. Bolaños, M. Bailly-Grandvaux, M. J.-E. Manuel, F. S. Tsung, F. N. Beg, and W. B. Mori, “Effect of small magnetic fields on stimulated Raman scattering in the kinetic Regime,” Journal of Plasma Physics 92(5), E133 (2026); https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022377826102384.

6. M. Pokornik, R. S. Dorst, S. Bolanos, C. J. Bruulsema, D. P. Higginson, D. J. Larson, M. J.-E. Manuel, B. B. Pollock, E. R. Tubman, and H.-S. Park, “Comprehensive Thomson Scattering Analysis in Laboratory Astrophysics Experiments with Machine Learning,” submitted to Physics of Plasmas.

7. M. Pokornik, K. Humbird, R. C. Nora, and O. Hurricane, “Discovering Interpretable ICF Hot Spot Models with Deep Learning,” submitted to Nuclear Fusion.

8. H. U. Rahman, E. Ruskov, P. Ney, D. Phipps, E. Petkov, L. Miller, N. Qi, A. Youmans, D. Higginson, V. Tranchant, E. C. Hansen, P. Tzeferacos, O. Yang, and F. N. Beg, “Staged Z-pinch experiment at the double-EAGLE pulsed power facility,” Plasma Physics and  Controlled Fusion 68, 055012 (2026); https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/ae66b6.

9. S. S. Tavares, G. Righi, C. Ruestes, and M. Meyers, “Towards the Ultimate Strength of Medium-Entropy Alloys Through Pulsed Lasers,” Advanced Functional Materials 36, e27395 (2026); https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202527395.

10. M. Wadas, S. Brygoo, P. Loubeyre, P. M. Celliers, G. W. Collins, J. H. Eggert, R. Jeanloz, E. Johnsen, B. Militzer, J. R. Rygg, and M. Millot, “Shock compression of helium to 360 GPa,” Physical Review Research 8, 013335 (2026); https://doi.org/10.1103/87r3-tgy1.

11. O. Yang, R. Beattie-Rossberg, V. Tranchant, A. P. Shah, K. Inzunza, H. U. Rahman, E. Ruskov, A. E. Youmans, D. P. Higginson, P. Tzeferacos, and F. N. Beg, “Effect of Gas Configuration and Initial Conditions on Implosion Dynamics,” submitted to the Journal of Applied Physics.

1. S. Ahmed, F. González-Caltado, V.N. Robinson, and B. Militzer, “Electride behavior at high pressure in silicon and other elements in the solid and liquid phases,” Physical Review B 112, 165111 (2025); https://doi.org/10.1103/14dp-bf1n.

2. M. Bailly-Grandvaux, S. Bolaños, J. Kim, J. Saret, C. McGuffey, K. Bhutwala, P. M. Nilson, T. Filkins, W. Theobald, A. Haid, S. Ivancic, and F. N. Beg, "Creation and characterization of warm dense matter isochorically heated by an intense laser-driven proton beam to temperatures exceeding 100 eV", Communications Physics 8, 285 (2025); https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-025-02206-x.

3. A. S. Bogale, L. Yin, S. Palaniyappan, J. Strehlow, S. V. Luedtke, C. S. Wong, D. Stark, D. C. Gautier, J. C. Fernández, A. Van Pelt, and L. T. Mix, “Optimizing MeV photon dose generation in laser-solid interactions via stable beam propagation,” Physical Review Research 7, 023169 (2025); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.7.023169.

4. S. Bolaños, M. Bailly-Grandvaux, B. J. Winjum, M. J.-E. Manuel, C. A. Walsh, A. Bogale, R. P. Lee, F. Tsung, W. Mori, D. Froula, T. Filkins, and F. N. Beg, "Direct evidence of the effect of a moderate external magnetic field on the Backward Stimulated Raman Scattering," Physics of Plasmas 32, 092102 (2025); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0277771.

5. S. Eisenbach, D. A. Mariscal, R. S. Dorst, T. Van Hoomissen, A. M. Ortiz, H. Zhang, J. J. Pilgram, C. G. Constantin, L. Rovige, and P. V. Heuer, “Machine learning analysis of high-repetition-rate two-dimensional Thomson scattering spectra from laser-produced plasmas.” Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 58, 035202 (2025); https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/ad89d6.

6. R. P. Lee, J. R. Pierce, K. G. Miller, M. Almanza, A. Tableman, V. K. Decyk, R. A. Fonseca, E. P. Alves, and W. B. Mori, "Acceleration of the particle-in-cell code OSIRIS with graphics processing units," Journal of Plasma Physics 91(1), E8 (2025); https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022377824001569.

7. B. Li, S. Zhao, and M. A. Meyers, “Plastic deformation of CaTiO3 perovskite under extreme loading,” Acta Materialia 294, 121166 (2025); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2025.121166.

8. B. Militzer, "Ab Initio Entropy Calculations of Water Predict the Interiors of Uranus and Neptune to be 15-30% Colder than Previous Models," Astrophysical Journal 990, 20 (2025); https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/adef48.

9. B. Militzer, "Ensemble Monte Carlo Calculations with Five Novel Moves", Computer Physics Communications 307, 109424 (2025); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2024.109424.

10. M. Pokornik, S. F. Khan, J. A. Gaffney, B. MacGowan, A. Maris, K. Humbird, and S. Haan, “Investigating Performance and Variability of NIF ICF Experiments with Deep Learning,” Nuclear Fusion 65, 076016 (2025); https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/addc7f.

11. S. T. Stewart, S. J. Lock, P. J. Carter, E. J. Davies, M. I. Petaev, and S. B. Jacobsen, "Planetesimal Impact Vapor Plumes and Nebular Shocks Form Chondritic Mixtures," The Planetary Science Journal 6(5), 108 (2025); https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/adbe71.

12. S. S. Tavares, J. G. Callanan, D. R. Jones, D. T. Martinez, J. Valdez, A. Huang, M. A. Meyers, and S. J. Fensin, "Dynamic fracture response of Cantor-derived medium entropy alloys," Acta Materialia 292, 121037 (2025); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2025.121037. 

13. V. Tranchant, F. Garcia-Rubio, E. C. Hansen, H. U. Rahman, P. Ney, E. Ruskov, and P. Tzeferacos, “Investigating radiation effects on liner and target compression dynamics in gas-puff Z-pinch implosions,” Physics of Plasmas 32, 123302 (2025); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0291120.

14. V. Tranchant, E. C. Hansen, D. Michta, F. Garcia-Rubio, H. U. Rahman, P. Ney, E. Ruskov, and P. Tzeferacos. “A two-dimensional numerical study of the magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor instability with FLASH: Application to the staged Z-pinch concept.” Physics of Plasmas 32, 033901 (2025); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0248761.

15. K. de Villa, F. Gonzalez-Cataldo, and B. Militzer, "Experimental Pathways for Detecting Double Superionicity in Planetary Ices," Contributions to Plasma Physics 65, e70015 (2025); https://doi.org/10.1002/ctpp.70015.

16. K. de Villa, X. Wang, E. Zurek, and B. Militzer, “Superionicity in ammonium polyhydrides at extreme pressures,” The Journal of Chemical Physics 163, 244305 (2025); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0306978.

1. S. Bolaños, M. J.-E. Manuel, M. Bailly-Grandvaux, A. S. Bogale, D. Caprioli, S. R. Klein, D. Michta, P. Tzeferacos, and F. N. Beg, "Laboratory evidence of the non-resonant streaming instability in the formation of 2 quasi-parallel collisionless shocks at high AlfvÅLenic Mach number," Physical Review E 110, L033201 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.110.L033201.

2. M. Bonitz, J. Vorberger, M. Bethkenhagen, M. P. Bohme, D. M. Ceperley, A. Filinov, F. Graziani, G. Gregori, P. Hamann, S. B. Hansen, M. Holzmann, S. Hu, H. Kahlert, V. Karasiev, U. Kleinschmidt, L. Kordts, C. Makait, B. Militzer, Z. A. Moldabekov, C. Pierleoni, M. Preising, K. Ramakrishna, R. Redmer, S. Schwalbe, P. Svensson, and T. Dornheim, "Towards first principles-based simulations of dense hydrogen", Physics of Plasmas 31, 110501 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0219405.

3. F. Conti, A. Williams, H. U. Rahman, V. Fadeev, D. P. Higginson, A. Youmans, N. Aybar, E. Ruskov, and F. N. Beg, "Neutron-producing gas puff Z-Pinch experiments on a fast, low-impedance, 0.5-MA Linear Transformer Driver," Journal of Applied Physics 136, 095901 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0218390.

4. F. Garcia-Rubio, V. Tranchant, E. C. Hansen, R. Tabassum, A. Reyes, H. U. Rahman, P. Ney, E. Ruskov, and P. Tzeferacos, "Shock wave formation in radiative plasmas," Physical Review E 109, 065206 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.109.065206.

5. E. C. Hansen, F. Garcia-Rubio, M. B. P. Adams, M. Fatenejad, K. Moczulski, P. Ney, H. U. Rahman, A. C. Reyes, E. Ruskov, V. Tranchant, and P. Tzeferacos, "Feasibility and performance of the staged Z-pinch: A one-dimensional study with FLASH and MACH2," Physics of Plasmas 31, 042712 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0187342.

6. A. C. Li, B. Li, F. González-Cataldo, R. E. Rudd, B. Militzer, E. M. Bringa, and M. A. Meyers, "Diamond under extremes," Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports 161, 100857 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mser.2024.100857.

7. A. C. Li, M. Meyers, E. Bringa, and R. Rudd, "Void-Induced Defects and Extreme Deformation of Diamond," Science (submitted).

8. D. Michta, V. Tranchant, J. Narkis, E. C. Hansen, M. B. P. Adams, K. Moczulski, A. Reyes, F. Conti, F. N. Beg, and P. Tzeferacos, “Code-to-code comparison between FLASH and HYDRA in gas-puff Z-pinch modeling,” Physics of Plasmas 31, 122703 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0231394.

9. B. Militzer and W. B. Hubbard, "Study of Jupiter's Interior: Comparison of 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 Layer Models", Icarus 411, 115955 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2024.115955.

10. J. J. Pilgram, C. G. Constantin, H. Zhang, P. Tzeferacos, T. G. Bachmann, L. Rovige, P. V. Heuer, M. B. P. Adams, S. Ghazaryan, M. Kaloyan, R. S. Dorst, M. J.-E. Manuel, and C. Niemann, "Two-dimensional Thomson scattering measurements of misaligned electron density and temperature gradients and associated Biermann battery-produced fields," Physics of Plasmas 31, 042113 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0201112.

11. M. Pokornik, D. P. Higginson, G. Swadling, D. Larson, K. Moczulski, B. Pollock, E. Tubman, P. Tzeferacos, H. S. Park, F. Beg, A. Arefiev, and M. J.-E. Manuel, "A deep learning approach to fast analysis of collective Thomson scattering spectra," Physics of Plasmas 31, 072115 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0201148. 

12. E. R. Tubman, B. B. Pollock, D. P. Higginson, D. Larson, J. S. Ross, M. P. Selwood, G. Swadling, M. J.-E. Manuel, M. Pokornik, K. Moczulski, P. Tzeferacos, and H.-S. Park, “Demonstrating imaging plate detector stacks for proton radiography using exploding pusher capsules,” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 1060, 169027 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2023.169027.

13. A. E. Youmans, J. M. Mitrani, M. McMahon, A. T. Jibodu, C. S. Goyon, C. M. Cooper, B. L. Goldblum, T. A. Laplace, J. A. Brown, F. Conti, A. Williams, F. Beg, E. Ruskov, B. J. Levitt, A. Johanssen, P. E. Tsai, and D. P. Higginson, "PANDA-FES: Portable and Adaptable Neutron Diagnostics for Advancing Fusion Energy Science,” in IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 52(10), 4833-4841 (2024); https://doi: 10.1109/TPS.2024.3396427.

14. D. Zimmer, M. R. Gomez, N. Bennett, C. A. Jennings, C. E. Myers, D. C. Lamppa, F. Conti, and F. N. Beg, "Understanding the impact of an applied axial magnetic field on efficient current coupling on the 𝑍 machine," Physical Review Accelerators and Beams 27(10), 100401 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.27.100401.

1. N. Aybar, F. Conti, J. Narkis, and F. N. Beg, "Role of initial conditions in plasma-current coupling of gas-puff Z-pinches," Physics of Plasmas 30(6), 062706 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0146565.

2. M. Bailly-Grandvaux, B. J. Winjum, M. J.-E. Manuel, S. Bolaños, and C. A. Walsh, "Validation of magnetized gas-jet experiments to investigate the effects of an external magnetic field on laser-plasma instabilities," Journal of Plasma Physics 89 (2), 175890201. (2023); https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022377823000053.

3. A. Calvo-Rivera, C. Huete, F. García-Rubio, A. L. Velikovich, R. Betti, and P. Tzeferacos, "Stability of perpendicular magnetohydrodynamic shocks in materials with ideal and nonideal equations of state,” Physical Review E 108, 035203 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.108.035203.

4. S. Eswarappa Prameela, T. M. Pollock, D. Raabe, M. A. Meyers, A. Aitkaliyeva, K.-L. Chintersingh, Z. C. Cordero, and L. Graham-Brady, "Materials for extreme environments," Nature Reviews Materials 8, 81–88 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-022-00496-z.

5. F. González-Cataldo and B. Militzer, “Ab initio determination of iron melting at terapascal pressures and Super-Earths core crystallization”, Physical Review Research 5, 033194 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.033194.

6. T. Kovačević, F. González-Cataldo, and B. Militzer, "The homogeneous mixing of MgO and H2O at extreme conditions," Contributions to Plasma Physics 63(9-10), e202300017 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1002/ctpp.202300017.

7. A. C. Li, B. Li, R. E. Rudd, and M. A. Meyers, "Dislocation generation in diamond under extreme loading," Matter 6 (9), 3040-3056 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2023.06.044.

8. E. Ruskov, H. U. Rahman, F. Conti, J. Valenzuela, N. Aybar, and F. N. Beg, “Measurements of Neutrons Created in a Staged Z-Pinch With Krypton Liner and Deuterium Target at a 1-MA Pulsed Power Generator,” IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 51, 113310 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2023.3322708.

9. D. B. Schaeffer, A. F. A. Bott, M. Borghesi, K. A. Flippo, W. Fox, J. Fuchs, C. Li, F. H. Séguin, H.-S. Park, P. Tzeferacos, and L. Willingale, "Proton imaging of high-energy-density laboratory plasmas," Review of Modern Physics 95, 045007 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.95.045007.

10. H. Zhang, J. J. Pilgram, C. G. Constantin, L. Rovige, P. V. Heuer, S. Ghazaryan, M. Kaloyan, R. S. Dorst, D. B. Schaeffer, and C. Niemann, “Two-Dimensional Thomson Scattering in Laser-Produced Plasmas,” Instruments 7(3), 25 (2023); https://doi.org/10.3390/instruments7030025.

1. N. A. Aybar, F. Conti, M. Cvejić, D. Mikitchuk, M. Dozières, E. Kroupp, J. Narkis, Y. Maron, and F. N. Beg, "Dependence of Plasma-Current Coupling on Current Rise Time in Gas-Puff Z-Pinches," in IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 50(9), 2541-2547 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2022.3198385.

2. B. A. Chidester, S. J. Lock, Kellie E. Swadba, Zia Rahman, K. Righter, and A. J. Campbell, "The lithophile element budget of Earth's core," Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 23, e2021GC009986 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GC009986.

3. T. Cordova, M. J. MacDonald, T. Döppner, F. N. Beg, M. Dozieres, B. Kozioziemski, N. A. Pablant, C. M. Sorce, and N. G. Whiting, "Absolute calibration of the conical crystal configuration of the zinc spectrometer (ZSPEC) at the OMEGA laser facility," Review of Scientific Instruments 1(93), 083509 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0099176.

4. M. R. Diamond, G. Shen, D. Y. Popov, C. Park, S. D. Jacobsen, and R. Jeanloz, "Electron density change across the pressure-induced iron spin transition," Physical Review Letters 129, 025701 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.025701.

5. T. Dornheim, Z. A. Moldabekov, J. Vorberger, and B. Militzer, “Path integral Monte Carlo approach to the structural properties and collective excitations of liquid He-3 without fixed nodes,” Scientific Reports 12, 708 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-04355-9.

6. R. M. Flanagan, M. A. Meyers, S. M. Valone, and S. J. Fensin, "Collapse of helium-filled voids in extreme deformation: Dislocation mechanisms," Materials Science and Engineering: A 839(12) (2022); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2022.142712.

7. R. M. Flanagan, S. J. Fensin, and M. A. Meyers, "The role of pre-existing heterogeneities in materials under shock and spall," Applied Physics Reviews 9(1), 31 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0053693.

8. F. D. Garcia, R. O., M. A. Meyers and S. N. Monteiro, "Cantor-derived medium-entropy alloys: bridging the gap between traditional metallic and high- entropy alloys," Journal of Materials Research and Technology 17, 1868-1895(2022); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmrt.2022.01.118.

9. B. Kalkan, B. K. Godwal, J. Y. Yan, and R. Jeanloz, "High-pressure phase transitions and melt structure of PbO2: An analog for silica," Physical Review B 105(6), 9 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.105.064111.

10. T. Kovačević, F. González-Cataldo, S. T. Stewart, and B. Militzer, "Miscibility of rock and ice in the interiors of water worlds," Scientific Reports 12, 13055 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-16816-w.

11. R. G. Kraus, R. J. Hemley, S. J. Ali, J. L. Belof, L. X. Benedict, J. Bernier, D. Braun, R. E. Cohen, G. W. Collins, F. Coppari, M. P. Desjarlais, D. Fratanduono, S. Hamel, A. Krygier, A. Lazicki, J. Mcnaney, M. Millot, P. C. Myint, M. G. Newman, J. R. Rygg, D. M. Sterbentz, S. T. Stewart, L. Stixrude, D. C. Swift, C. Wehrenberg, and J. H. Eggert, "Measuring the melting curve of iron at super-Earth core conditions," Science 375, 202 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abm1472.

12. J. Narkis, F. Conti, and F. N. Beg, "Material effects on dynamics in triple-nozzle gas-puff Z pinches," Physical Review E 105, 045205 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.105.045205.

13. J. J. Pilgram, M. B. P. Adams, C. G. Constantin, P. V. Heuer, S. Ghazaryan, M. Kaloyan, R. S. Dorst, D. B. Schaeffer, P. Tzeferacos, and C. Niemann, "High Repetition Rate Exploration of the Biermann Battery Effect in Laser Produced Plasmas Over Large Spatial Regions," High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 10, E13; https://doi.org/10.1017/hpl.2022.2.

14. G. Righi, T. E. Lockard, R. E. Rudd, M. A. Meyers, and H-S. Park, "Design of high-pressure iron Rayleigh–Taylor strength experiments for the National Ignition Facility," Journal of Applied Physics 131, 145902 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0084693.

15. J. Strehlow, J. Kim, M. Bailly-Grandvaux, S. Bolaños, H. Smith, A. Haid, E. L. Alfonso, C. Aniculaesei, H. Chen, T. Ditmire, M. E. Donovan, S. B. Hansen, B. M. Hegelich, H. S. McLean, H. J. Quevedo, M. M. Spinks, and F. N. Beg, "A laser parameter study on enhancing proton generation from microtube foil targets," Scientific Reports 12(1), 10827 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-14881-9.

16. M. P. Valdivia, G. W. Collins, F. Conti, and F. N. Beg., "Wire, hybrid, and laser-cut X-pinches as Talbot-Lau backlighters for electron density diagnostics," Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 64(3), 14 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/ac4b95.

17. J. Wisdom, R. Dbouk, B. Militzer, W. B. Hubbard, F. Nimmo, B. Downey, and R. French, "Loss of a satellite could explain Saturn’s obliquity and young rings," Science 377, 1285-1289 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abn1234.

1. N. Aybar, M. Dozieres, D. B. Reisman, M. Cvejić, D. Mikitchuk, F. Conti, E. Kroupp, R. Doron, Y. Maron, and F. N. Beg, "Azimuthal magnetic field distribution in gas-puff Z-pinch implosions with and without external magnetic stabilization," Physical Review E 103, 053205 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.103.053205.

2. T. Chapman, B. J. Winjum, R. L. Berger, A. Dimits, J. W. Banks, S. Brunner, I. Joseph, and D. Ghosh, "Nonlinear kinetic simulation study of the ion–ion streaming instability in single- and multi-ion species plasmas,"  Physics of Plasmas 28, 022105 (2021); https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0015302.

3. B. A. Chidester, M. Millot, J. P. Townsend, D. K. Spaulding, E. J. Davies, S. Root, P. Kalita, D. E. Fratanduono, S. B. Jacobsen, and S. T. Stewart, “The principal Hugoniot of iron-bearing olivine to 1465 GPa,” Geophysical Research Letters 48(8), e2021GL092471 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL092471.

4. G. W. Collins, IV, M. P. Valdivia, S. B. Hansen, F. Conti, L. C. Carlson, D. A. Hammer, A. Elshafiey, J. Narkis, and F. N. Beg, "Direct comparison of wire, foil, and hybrid X-pinches on a 200 kA, 150 ns current driver," Journal of Applied Physics 129, 073301(2021); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0035587. (Editor's Pick)

5. F. Conti,  J. Narkis, A. Williams, V. Fadeev, and F. N. Beg, "Dynamics and energy coupling of gas puff Z-pinches on a fast linear transformer driver," Journal of Applied Physics 130, 023301 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0051335. 

6. E. J. Davis, M. S. Duncan, S. Root, R. G. Kraus, D. K. Spaulding, S. B. Jacobsen, and S. T. Stewart, “Temperature and Density on the Forsterite Liquid-Vapor Phase Boundary,” Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 126(4), e2020JE006745 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JE006745.

7. T. Dornheim, J. Vorberger, B. Militzer, and Z. A. Moldabekov, "Momentum distribution of the uniform electron gas at finite temperature: Effects of spin polarization," Physical Review E 104 (5), 18 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.104.055206.

8. R. M. Flanagan, M. A. Meyers, and S. J. Fensin, “The role of pre-existing defects in shock-generated ejecta in copper,” Journal of Applied Physics 130, 075101 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0056581.

9. F. Gonzalez-Cataldo, B. K. Godwal, K. Driver, R. Jeanloz, and B. Militzer, "Model of ramp compression of diamond from ab initio simulations," Physical Review B 104 (13), 13 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.104.134104.

10. A. Higginson, S. Zhang, M. Bailly-Grandvaux, C. McGuffey, K. Bhutwala, B. J. Winjum, J. Strehlow, B. Edghill, M. Dozières, F. S. Tsung, R. P. Lee, S. Andrews, S. J. Spencer, N. Lemos, F. Albert, P. King, M. S. Wei, W. B. Mori, M. J.-E Manuel, and F. N. Beg, “Electron acceleration at oblique angles via stimulated Raman scattering at laser irradiance > 10^{16} Wcm^{-2}μm^{2},” Physical Review E 103, 033203 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.103.033203.

11. R. Jeanloz, "Calibrating experiments at atom-crushing pressures," Science 372, 1037-1038 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abi8015.

12. M. Kaloyan, S. Ghazaryan, C. G. Constantin, R. S. Dorst, P. V. Heuer, J. J. Pilgram, D. B. Schaeffer, and C. Niemann, "Raster Thomson scattering in large-scale laser plasmas produced at high repetition rate," Review of Scientific Instruments 92, 093102 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0059244. 

13. D. Kawahito, M. Bailly-Grandvaux, M. Dozières, C. McGuffey, P. Forestier-Colleoni, J. Peebles, J. J. Honrubia, B. Khiar, S. Hansen, P. Tzeferacos, M. S.Wei, C. M. Krauland, P. Gourdain, J. R. Davies, K. Matsuo, S. Fujioka, E. M. Campbell, J. J. Santos, D. Batani, K. Bhutwala, S. Zhang, and F. N. Beg, "Fast electron transport dynamics and energy deposition in magnetized, imploded cylindrical plasma." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 379, 20200052 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2020.0052.

14. J. Lütgert, J. Vorberger, N. J. Hartley, K. Voigt, M. Rodel, A. K. Schuster, S. Brown, T. E. Cowan, E. Cunningham, T. Doppner, R. W. Falcone, L. B. Fletcher, E. Galtier, S. H. Glenzer, A. Laso Garcia, D. O. Gericke, P. A. Heimann, H. J. Lee, E. E. McBride, A. Pelka, I. Prencipe, A. Ravasio, A. M. Saunders, M. Scholmerich, M. Schorner, P. Sun, and D. Kraus, "Measuring the structure and equation of state of polyethylene terephthalate at megabar pressures," Scientific Reports 11,  12883 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-91769-0.

15. M. J. MacDonald, A. M. Saunders, B. Bachmann, M. Bethkenhagen, L. Divol, M. D. Doyle, L. B. Fletcher, S. H. Glenzer, D. Kraus, O. L. Landen, H. J. LeFevre, S. R. Klein, P. Neumayer, R. Redmer, N. Whiting, R. W. Falcone, and T. Döppner, "Demonstration of a laser-driven, narrow spectral bandwidth x-ray source for collective x-ray scattering experiments," Physics of Plasmas 28, 032708 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0030958.

16. G. Massacrier, M. Böhme, J. Vorberger, F. Soubiran, and B. Militzer, “Reconciling ionization energies and band gaps of warm dense matter derived with ab initio simulations and average atom models,” Physical Review Research 3, 023026 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.023026.

17. B. Militzer, F. Gonzalez-Cataldo, S. Zhang, K. P. Driver, and F. Soubiran, "First-Principles Equation of State Database for Warm Dense Matter Computation," Physical Review E 103, 013203 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.103.013203.

18. K. G. Miller, R. P. Lee, A. Tableman, A. Helm, R. A. Fonseca, V. K. Decyk, and W. B. Mori, "Dynamic load balancing with enhanced shared-memory parallelism for particle-in-cell codes," Computer Physics Communications 259, 107633 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2020.107633.

19. J. Narkis, F. Conti, A. L. Velikovich, and F. N. Beg, "Mitigation of magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor instability growth in a triple-nozzle, neutron-producing gas-puff Z pinch," Physical Review E 104(2), 6 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.104.L023201.

20. J. Nilsen, B. Bachmann, G. B. Zimmerman, R. Hatarik, T. Döppner, D. Swift, J. Hawreliak, G. W. Collins, R. W. Falcone, S. H. Glenzer, D. Kraus, O. L. Landen, J. I. Castor, H. D. Whitley, and A. L. Kritcher, "Using neutrons and X-rays to measure plasma conditions in a solid sphere of deuterated polyethylene compressed to densities of 35 g/cc at temperatures of 2 keV and pressures of 40 Gbar," Physics of Plasmas 28, 122706 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0065236.

21. A. Ravid, R. I. Citron, and R. Jeanloz, "Hydrodynamic instability at impact interfaces and planetary implications,” Nature Communications 12, 2104 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22052-z.

22. G. Righi, C. J. Ruestes, C. V. Stan, S. J. Ali, R. E. Rudd, M. Kawasaki, H. S. Park, and M. A. Meyers, "Towards the ultimate strength of iron: spalling through laser shock," Acta Materialia 215, 117072 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2021.117072.

23. J. Strehlow, D. Kawahito, M. Bailly-Grandvaux, F. N. Beg, and G. M. Petrov, “The effects of laser pulse length and collisional ionization on the acceleration of titanium ions,” Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 63, 065011 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/abf671.

24. D. C. Swift, A. L. Kritcher, J. A. Hawreliak, J. Gaffney, A. Lazicki, A. MacPhee, B. Bachmann, T. Doeppner, J. Nilsen, H. D. Whitley, G. W. Collins, S. Glenzer, S. D. Rothman, D. Kraus, and R. W. Falcone, "Simultaneous compression and opacity data from time-series radiography with a Lagrangian marker," Review of Scientific Instruments 92, 063514 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0048842.

25. M. P. Valdivia, D. Stutman, C. Stoeckl, W. Theobald, G. W. Collins, V. Bouffetier, M. Vescovi, C. Mileham, I. A. Begishev, S. R. Klein, R. Melean, S. Muller, J. Zou, F. Veloso, A. Casner, F. N. Beg, and S. P. Regan, "Talbot-Lau X-ray deflectometer: Refraction-based HEDP imaging diagnostic." Review of Scientific Instruments 92(6), 5 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0043655

26. K. Voigt, M. Zhang, K. Ramakrishna, A. Amouretti, K. Appel, E. Brambrink, V. Cerantola, D. Chekrygina, R. W. Falcone, K. Falk, L. B. Fletcher, D. O. Gericke, S. Gode, M. Harmand, N. J. Hartley, S. P. Hau-Riege, L. Huang, O. S. Humphries, Lokamani, M. Makita, A. Pelka, C. Prescher, A. K. Schuster, M. Smid, T. Toncian, J. Vorberger, U. Zastrau, T. R. Preston, and D. Kraus, "Demonstration of an X-ray Raman Spectroscopy setup to study warm dense carbon at the High Energy Density Instrument of European XFEL," Physics of Plasmas 28, 082701 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0048150.

27. J. Wu, F. Gonzalez-Cataldo and B. Militzer, “High-pressure phase diagram of beryllium from ab initio free-energy calculations,” Physical Review B 104, 014103 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.104.014103.

28. H. Yang, A. E. Gleason, S. N. Tkachev, B. Chen, R. Jeanloz, and W. L. Mao, “Noble gas incorporation into silicate glasses: implications for planetary volatile storage,” Geochemical Perspectives Letters 17 (2021); https://doi.org/10.7185/geochemlet.2105.

29. S. Zhao, L. Zezhou, C. Zhu, W. Yang, Z. Zhang, D. E. J. Armstrong, P. S. Grant, R. O. Ritchie, and M. A. Meyers, "Amorphization in extreme deformation of the CrMnFeCoNi high-entropy alloy," Science Advances 7(5), eabb3108 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb3108.

30. S. Zhao, B. Li, B. A. Remington, C. E. Wehrenberg, H. S. Park, E. N. Hahn, and M. A. Meyers, "Directional amorphization of covalently-bonded solids: A generalized deformation mechanism in extreme loading," Materials Today 49, 59-67 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mattod.2021.04.017.

1. M. Bailly-Grandvaux, J. Kim, C. M. Krauland, S. Zhang, M. Dozières, M. S. Wei, W. Theobald, P. E. Grabowski, J. J. Santos, Ph. Nicolaï, P. McKenna, M. P. Desjarlais, and F. N. Beg, "Transport of kJ-laser-driven relativistic electron beams in cold and shock-heated vitreous carbon and diamond," New Journal of Physics 22, 033031 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ab7a06.

2. M. Bailly-Grandvaux, D. Kawahito, C. McGuffey, J. Strehlow, B. Edghill, M. S. Wei, N. Alexander, A. Haid, C. Brabetz, V. Bagnoud, R. Hollinger, M. G. Capeluto, J. J. Rocca, and F. N. Beg, "Ion acceleration from microstructured targets irradiated by high-intensity picosecond laser pulses," Physical Review E 102, 021201 (R), 7 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.102.021201.

3. N. A. Blanc, D. R.Stegman, and L. B. Ziegler, "Thermal and magnetic evolution of a crystallizing basal magma ocean in Earth’s mantle," Earth and Planetary Science Letters 534, 116085 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116085.

4. G. W. Collins IV, J. C. Valenzuela, P. Tzeferacos, B. Khiar, A. F. A. Bott, G. Gregori, C. A. Speliotopoulos, N. Aybar, F. Conti, and F. N. Beg, “The Role of Collisionality and Radiative Cooling in Supersonic Plasma Jet Collisions of Different Materials,” Physical Review E 101, 023205 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.101.023205.

5. F. Conti, N. Aybar, J. Narkis, J. C. Valenzuela, H. U. Rahman, E. Ruskov, E. Dutra, S. Haque, A. Covington, and F. N. Beg, "Study of stability in a liner-on-target gas puff Z-pinch as a function of pre-embedded axial magnetic field," Physics of Plasmas 27, 012702 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5131170.

6. F. Conti, J. C. Valenzuela, V. Fadeev, N. Aybar, D. B. Reisman, A. Williams, G. Collins IV, J. Narkis, M. P. Ross, F. N. Beg, and R. B. Spielman, "MA-class linear transformer driver for Z-pinch research," Physical Review Accelerators and Beams 23, 090401 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.23.090401.

7. E. J. Davies, P. J. Carter, S. Root, D. K. Spaulding, R. G. Kraus, S. T. Stewart, and S. B. Jacobsen, “Silicate Melting and Vaporization in Rocky Planet Formation,” JGR-Planets 125(2), (2020); https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JE006227. 

8. R. Domingos, M. M. Tremblay, D. L. Shuster, and B. Militzer, "Simulations and Experiments Reveal Effect of Nanopores on Helium Diffusion in Quartz," ACS Earth and Space Chemistry 4(11), 1906-1912 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.0c00187.

9. M. Dozières, S. Hansen, P. Forestier-Colleoni, C. McGuffey, D. Kawahito, M. Bailly-Grandvaux, K. Bhutwala, C. M. Krauland, M. S. Wei, P. Gourdain, J. R. Davies, K. Matsuo, S. Fujioka, E. M. Campbell, J. L. Peebles, J. J. Santos, D. Batani, S. Zhang, and F. N. Beg, "Characterization of an imploding cylindrical plasma for electron transport studies using X-ray emission spectroscopy," Physics of Plasmas 27, 023302 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5125271. 

10. R. Flanagan, E. N. Hahn, T. C. Germann, M. A. Meyers, and S. J. Fensin, “Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Ejecta Formation in Helium-Implanted Copper,” Scripta Materialia 178, 114-118 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2019.11.005. 

11. Y. Gao, X. Q. Lin, T. Smart, P. H. Ci, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, R. Jeanloz, J. Ni, and J. Q. Wu, "Band Engineering of Large-Twist-Angle Graphene/h-BN Moiré Superlattices with Pressure," Physical Review Letters 125(22), 6 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.125.226403.

12. F. González-Cataldo and B. Militzer, “Thermal and Pressure Ionization in Warm, Dense MgSiO3 Studied with First-Principles Computer Simulations,” AIP Conference Proceedings 2272 (1), 090001 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/12.0000793.

13. F. Gonzalez-Cataldo, F. Soubiran, and B. Militzer, "Equation of State of Hot, Dense Magnesium Derived with First-Principles Computer Simulations," Physics of Plasmas 27, 092706 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0017555.

14. F. Gonzalez-Cataldo, F. Soubiran, H. Peterson, and B. Militzer, “Path Integral Monte Carlo and Density Functional Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Warm, Dense MgSiO3,” Physical Review B 101, 024107 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.101.024107.

15. A. L. Kritcher, D. C. Swift, T. Doeppner, B. Bachmann, L. X. Benedict, G. W. Collins, J. L. DuBois, F. Elsner, G. Fontaine, J. A. Gaffney, S. Hamel, A. Lazicki, W. R. Johnson, N. Kostinski, D. Kraus, M. MacDonald, B. Maddox, M. E. Martin, P. Neumayer, A. Nikroo, J. Nilsen, B. A. Remington, D. Saumon, P. A. Sterne, W. Sweet, A. A. Correa Tedesco, H. D. Whitley, R. W. Falcone, and S. H. Glenzer, "A measurement of the equation of state of carbon envelopes of white dwarfs," Nature 584, 51–54 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2535-y.

16. C. LaForge, A. Benediktovitch, V. Sukharnikov, S. Krusic, M. Zitnik, M. Debatin, R. W. Falcone, J. D. Asmussen, M. Mudrich, R. Michiels, F. Stienkemeier, L. Badano, C. Callegari, F. M. Di, M. Ferianis, L. Giannessi, O. Plekan, K. C. Prince, C. Spezzani, N. Rohringer, and N. Berrah, “Time-resolved quantum beats in the fluorescence of helium resonantly excited by XUV radiation," Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 53 244012 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/abc660.

17. B. Militzer, F. Gonzalez-Cataldo, S. A. Zhang, H. D. Whitley, D. C. Swift, and M. Millot, "Nonideal mixing effects in warm dense matter studied with first-principles computer simulations," Journal of Chemical Physics 153(18), 11 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0023232.

18. M. Millot, S. Zhang, D. E. Fratanduono, F. Coppari, S. Hamel, B. Militzer, D. Simonova, S. Shcheka, N. Dubrovinskaia, L. Dubrovinsky, and J. H. Eggert, “Recreating giants impacts in the laboratory: Shock compression of MgSiO3 bridgmanite to 13 Mbar,” Geophysical Research Letters 47(4), e2019GL085476 (2020);  https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL085476.

19. M. A. Olson, S. Bhatia, P. Larson, and Burkhard Militzer, "Prediction of Chlorine and Fluorine Crystal Structures at High Pressure Using Symmetry Driven Structure Search with Geometric Constraints," Journal of Chemical Physics 153, 094111 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0018402.

20. F. Soubiran and B. Militzer, "Anharmonicity and Phase Diagram of Magnesium Oxide in the Megabar Regime," Physical Review Letters 125, 175701 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.175701.

21. S. T. Stewart, E. J. Davies, M. Duncan, S. Lock, S. Root, J. Townsend, R. Kraus, R. Caracas, and S. Jacobsen, “The shock physics of giant impacts: Key requirements for the equations of state,” AIP Conference Proceedings 2272(1), 080003 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/12.0000946.

22. S. Tochitsky, A. Pak, F. Fiuza, D. Haberberger, N. Lemos, A. Link, D. H. Froula, and C. Joshi, “Laser-driven collisionless shock acceleration of ions from near-critical plasmas," Physics of Plasmas 27, 083102 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5144446.

1. S. Hsieh, P. Bhattacharyya, C. Zu, T. Mittiga, T. J. Smart, F. Machado, B. Kobrin, T. O. Hohn, N. Z. Rui, M. Kamrani, S. Chatterjee, S. Choi, M. Zaletel, V. V. Struzhkin, J. E. Moore, V. I. Levitas, R. Jeanloz, and N. Y. Yao, “Imaging stress and magnetism at high pressures using a nanoscale quantum sensor,” Science 366, 1349-1354 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw4352.

2. Z. Li, S. Zhao, B. Wang, S. Cui, R. Chen, R. Z. Valiev, and M. A. Meyers, “The Effects of Ultra-Fine-Grained Structure and Cryogenic Temperature on Adiabatic Shear Localization in Titanium,” Acta Materialia 181, 408-422 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2019.09.011.

3. Z. Li, S. Zhao, R. O. Ritchie, and M. A. Meyers, “Mechanical properties of high-entropy alloys with emphasis on face-centered cubic alloys,” Progress in Materials Science 102, 296–345 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmatsci.2018.12.003.

4. A. Melinger-Cohen and R. Jeanloz, “Finite strain analysis of shear- and compressional-wave velocities,” Journal of Geophysical Research 124, 11651-11677 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB017868. 

5. J. Narkis, H. U. Rahman, J. C. Valenzuela, F. Conti, R. D. McBride, D. Venosa, and F. N. Beg, “A semi-analytic model of gas-puff liner-on-target magneto-inertial fusion,” Physics of Plasmas 26, 032708 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5086056.

6. F. Soubiran, F. Gonzalez-Cataldo, K. P. Driver, S. Zhang, and B. Militzer, “Magnesium Oxide at Extreme Temperatures and Pressures Studied with First-Principles Simulations,” Journal of Chemical Physics 151, 214104 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5126624.

7. J. Strehlow, P. Forestier-Colleoni, C. McGuffey, M. Bailly-Grandvaux, T. S. Daykin, E. McCary, J. Peebles, G. Revet, S. Zhang, T. Ditmire, M. Donovan, G. Dyer, J. Fuchs, E. W. Gaul, D. P. Higginson, G. E. Kemp, M. Martinez, H. S. McLean, M. Spinks, H. Sawada, and F. N. Beg, “The response function of Fujifilm BAS-TR imaging plates to laser-accelerated titanium ions,” Review of Scientific Instruments 90, 083302 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5109783.

8. B. J. Winjum, A. Tableman, F. S. Tsung, and W. B. Mori, “Interactions of laser speckles due to kinetic stimulated Raman scattering,” Physics of Plasmas 26, 112701 (2019); doi.org/10.1063/1.5110513.

Publicly Released EOS Model and ANEOS Code Package Developments

1. S. T. Stewart. (2019, October 5). Equation of State Model Forsterite-ANEOS-SLVTv1.0G1: Documentation and Comparisons (Version v1.0.0). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3478631.