Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) has existed as a field of study since the 1970s, but the field
was born out of the Cold War. In the decades since the 1960s, pioneering research …

The quest for controlled fusion energy has been ongoing for over a half century. The
demonstration of ignition and energy gain from thermonuclear fuels in the laboratory has …

For more than half a century, researchers around the world have been engaged in attempts
to achieve fusion ignition as a proof of principle of various fusion concepts. Following the …

Obtaining a burning plasma is a critical step towards self-sustaining fusion energy 1. A
burning plasma is one in which the fusion reactions themselves are the primary source of …

A series of cryogenic, layered deuterium-tritium (DT) implosions have produced, for the first
time, fusion energy output twice the peak kinetic energy of the imploding shell. These …

Inertial confinement fusion seeks to create burning plasma conditions in a spherical capsule
implosion, which requires efficiently absorbing the driver energy in the capsule, transferring …

Motivated by the current high interest in the field of warm dense matter research, in this
article we review the uniform electron gas (UEG) at finite temperature and over a broad …

Warm dense matter (WDM)—an exotic state of highly compressed matter—has attracted
increased interest in recent years in astrophysics and for dense laboratory systems. At the …

Focusing laser light onto a very small target can produce the conditions for laboratory-scale
nuclear fusion of hydrogen isotopes. The lack of accurate predictive models, which are …

In a recent Letter [T. Dornheim et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 156403 (2016)], we presented the
first quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) results for the warm dense electron gas in the …