Formation and Microfilamentation of Spiral Density Waves in Plasmas Induced by Circularly Polarized Field Ionization

C-K Huang1,2,3, C Zhang2, K A Marsh2

  • 1<a href="https://ror.org/03haqsp75">Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences</a>, Academia Sinica, Taipei 10617, Taiwan.

Physical Review Letters
|December 13, 2024
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