Acknowledge WarpX
Please acknowledge the role that WarpX played in your research.
In presentations
For your presentations, you can find a WarpX acknowledgment slide here. Feel free to use it to acknowledge WarpX in your presentation.
Acknowledgement Sentence
Please add the following acknowledgement sentence to your publications, it helps contributors keep in touch with the community and promote the project.
This research used the open-source particle-in-cell code WarpX. Primary WarpX contributors are with LBNL, LLNL, CEA-LIDYL, SLAC, DESY, CERN, Helion Energy, and TAE Technologies. We acknowledge all WarpX contributors.
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This research used the open-source \href{https://blast-warpx.github.io}{particle-in-cell code WarpX}.
Primary WarpX contributors are with LBNL, LLNL, CEA-LIDYL, SLAC, DESY, CERN, Helion Energy, and TAE Technologies.
We acknowledge all WarpX contributors.
Citation
If your project leads to a scientific publication, please consider citing all WarpX authors via our persistent Zenodo DOI:
J.-L. Vay et al., WarpX: An advanced Particle-In-Cell code. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4571577, https://blast-warpx.github.io (2018)
@misc{WarpX,
author = {Vay, Jean-Luc and
Acciarri, Marco and
Almgren, Ann and
Amorim, Lígia Diana and
Andriyash, Igor and
Angus, Justin Ray and
Antoun, Thierry and
Belkin, Daniel and
Bizzozero, David and
Blelly, Aurore and
Clark, Stephen Eric and
Dammak, Eya and
Fedeli, Luca and
Formenti, Arianna and
Garten, Marco and
Ge, Lixin and
Giacomel, Lorenzo and
Gott, Kevin and
Giacomel, Lorenzo and
Groenewald, Roelof E. and
Grote, David and
Gu, Junmin and
Harrison, Cyrus and
Haseeb, Muhammad and
Huebl, Axel and
Jambunathan, Revathi and
Kara-Mostefa, Ilian and
Klion, Hannah and
Kumar, Prabhat and
Lehe, Remi and
Loring, Burlen and
Marks, Thomas and
Miller, Phil and
Myers, Andrew and
Pech, Juliette and
Rheaume, Elisa and
Richardson, Glenn and
Rheaume, Elisa and
Rowan, Michael E. and
Sandberg, Ryan Thor and
Scherpelz, Peter and
Sinn, Alexander and
Shapoval, Olga and
Terzani, Davide and
Th{\'e}venet, Maxence and
Weichman, Kale and
Yang, Eloise and
Zaim, Ne{\"i}l and
Zhang, Weiqun and
Zhao, Yinjian and
Zhu, Kevin Z. and
Zoni, Edoardo},
title = {{WarpX: An advanced Particle-In-Cell code}},
year = 2018,
publisher = {Zenodo},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.4571577},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4571577},
note = {\url{https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4571577}},
howpublished = {https://blast-warpx.github.io}
}
Since the WarpX is an actively evolving project, a specific version might be used in your work to ensure reproducibility. You can select a version-specific DOI from the release page and add the version number to the cited title, e.g. for version 25.10:
J.-L. Vay et al., WarpX: An advanced Particle-In-Cell code. version 25.10, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.17261711 https://blast-warpx.github.io (2025)
@misc{WarpXv25.10,
author = {Vay, Jean-Luc and
Acciarri, Marco and
Almgren, Ann and
Amorim, Lígia Diana and
Andriyash, Igor and
Angus, Justin Ray and
Antoun, Thierry and
Belkin, Daniel and
Bizzozero, David and
Blelly, Aurore and
Clark, Stephen Eric and
Dammak, Eya and
Fedeli, Luca and
Formenti, Arianna and
Garten, Marco and
Ge, Lixin and
Giacomel, Lorenzo and
Gott, Kevin and
Giacomel, Lorenzo and
Groenewald, Roelof E. and
Grote, David and
Gu, Junmin and
Harrison, Cyrus and
Haseeb, Muhammad and
Huebl, Axel and
Jambunathan, Revathi and
Kara-Mostefa, Ilian and
Klion, Hannah and
Kumar, Prabhat and
Lehe, Remi and
Loring, Burlen and
Marks, Thomas and
Miller, Phil and
Myers, Andrew and
Pech, Juliette and
Rheaume, Elisa and
Richardson, Glenn and
Rheaume, Elisa and
Rowan, Michael E. and
Sandberg, Ryan Thor and
Scherpelz, Peter and
Sinn, Alexander and
Shapoval, Olga and
Terzani, Davide and
Th{\'e}venet, Maxence and
Weichman, Kale and
Yang, Eloise and
Zaim, Ne{\"i}l and
Zhang, Weiqun and
Zhao, Yinjian and
Zhu, Kevin Z. and
Zoni, Edoardo},
title = {{WarpX: An advanced Particle-In-Cell code}},
year = 2025,
publisher = {Zenodo},
version = {25.10},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.17261711},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17261711},
note = {\url{https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17261711}},
howpublished = {https://blast-warpx.github.io}
}
Detailed WarpX references
If your project uses a specific algorithm or component, please consider citing the respective publications in addition.
Lehe R, Haseeb M, Angus J, Grote D, Groenewald R, Formenti A, Huebl A, Deslippe J, Vay JL. An Efficient GPU Parallelization Strategy for Binary Collisions in Particle-In-Cell Plasma Simulations. Proceedings of the Plarform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC’25), 2025. DOI:10.1145/3732775.3733578
Vay JL, Angus JR, Shapoval O, Lehe R, Grote D, Huebl A. Energy-preserving coupling of explicit particle-in-cell with Monte Carlo collisions. Physical Review E 111, 2025. DOI:10.1103/PhysRevE.111.025306
Shapoval O, Zoni E, Lehe R, Thévenet M, and Vay J-L. Pseudospectral particle-in-cell formulation with arbitrary charge and current-density time dependencies for the modeling of relativistic plasmas. Physical Review E 110, 025206, 2024. DOI:10.1103/PhysRevE.110.025206
Sandberg R T, Lehe R, Mitchell C E, Garten M, Myers A, Qiang J, Vay J-L and Huebl A. Synthesizing Particle-in-Cell Simulations Through Learning and GPU Computing for Hybrid Particle Accelerator Beamlines. Proc. of Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC’24), PASC24 Best Paper Award, 2024. DOI:10.1145/3659914.3659937
Sandberg R T, Lehe R, Mitchell C E, Garten M, Qiang J, Vay J-L and Huebl A. Hybrid Beamline Element ML-Training for Surrogates in the ImpactX Beam-Dynamics Code. 14th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC’23), WEPA101, 2023. DOI:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2023-WEPA101
Fedeli L, Huebl A, Boillod-Cerneux F, Clark T, Gott K, Hillairet C, Jaure S, Leblanc A, Lehe R, Myers A, Piechurski C, Sato M, Zaim N, Zhang W, Vay J-L, Vincenti H. Pushing the Frontier in the Design of Laser-Based Electron Accelerators with Groundbreaking Mesh-Refined Particle-In-Cell Simulations on Exascale-Class Supercomputers. SC22: International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC). ISSN:2167-4337, pp. 25-36, Dallas, TX, US, 2022. 2022 ACM Gordon Bell Prize Winner, DOI:10.1109/SC41404.2022.00008 (preprint here)
Huebl A, Lehe R, Zoni E, Shapoval O, Sandberg R T, Garten M, Formenti A, Jambunathan R, Kumar P, Gott K, Myers A, Zhang W, Almgren A, Mitchell C E, Qiang J, Sinn A, Diederichs S, Thevenet M, Grote D, Fedeli L, Clark T, Zaim N, Vincenti H, Vay JL. From Compact Plasma Particle Sources to Advanced Accelerators with Modeling at Exascale. Proceedings of the 20th Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop (AAC’22), in print, 2023. arXiv:2303.12873
Huebl A, Lehe R, Mitchell C E, Qiang J, Ryne R D, Sandberg R T, Vay JL. Next Generation Computational Tools for the Modeling and Design of Particle Accelerators at Exascale. Proceedings of the 2022 North American Particle Accelerator Conference (NAPAC’22), TUYE2, pp. 302-306, 2022. arXiv:2208.02382, DOI:10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2022-TUYE2
Fedeli L, Zaim N, Sainte-Marie A, Thevenet M, Huebl A, Myers A, Vay JL, Vincenti H. PICSAR-QED: a Monte Carlo module to simulate Strong-Field Quantum Electrodynamics in Particle-In-Cell codes for exascale architectures. New Journal of Physics 24 025009, 2022. DOI:10.1088/1367-2630/ac4ef1
Lehe R, Blelly A, Giacomel L, Jambunathan R, Vay JL. Absorption of charged particles in perfectly matched layers by optimal damping of the deposited current. Physical Review E 106 045306, 2022. DOI:10.1103/PhysRevE.106.045306
Zoni E, Lehe R, Shapoval O, Belkin D, Zaim N, Fedeli L, Vincenti H, Vay JL. A hybrid nodal-staggered pseudo-spectral electromagnetic particle-in-cell method with finite-order centering. Computer Physics Communications 279, 2022. DOI:10.1016/j.cpc.2022.108457
Myers A, Almgren A, Amorim LD, Bell J, Fedeli L, Ge L, Gott K, Grote DP, Hogan M, Huebl A, Jambunathan R, Lehe R, Ng C, Rowan M, Shapoval O, Thevenet M, Vay JL, Vincenti H, Yang E, Zaim N, Zhang W, Zhao Y, Zoni E. Porting WarpX to GPU-accelerated platforms. Parallel Computing. 2021 Sep, 108:102833. DOI:10.1016/j.parco.2021.102833
Shapoval O, Lehe R, Thevenet M, Zoni E, Zhao Y, Vay JL. Overcoming timestep limitations in boosted-frame Particle-In-Cell simulations of plasma-based acceleration. Phys. Rev. E Nov 2021, 104:055311. arXiv:2104.13995, DOI:10.1103/PhysRevE.104.055311
Vay JL, Huebl A, Almgren A, Amorim LD, Bell J, Fedeli L, Ge L, Gott K, Grote DP, Hogan M, Jambunathan R, Lehe R, Myers A, Ng C, Rowan M, Shapoval O, Thevenet M, Vincenti H, Yang E, Zaim N, Zhang W, Zhao Y, Zoni E. Modeling of a chain of three plasma accelerator stages with the WarpX electromagnetic PIC code on GPUs. Physics of Plasmas. 2021 Feb 9, 28(2):023105. DOI:10.1063/5.0028512
Rowan ME, Gott KN, Deslippe J, Huebl A, Thevenet M, Lehe R, Vay JL. In-situ assessment of device-side compute work for dynamic load balancing in a GPU-accelerated PIC code. PASC ‘21: Proceedings of the Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference. 2021 July, 10, pages 1-11. DOI:10.1145/3468267.3470614
Vay JL, Almgren A, Bell J, Ge L, Grote DP, Hogan M, Kononenko O, Lehe R, Myers A, Ng C, Park J, Ryne R, Shapoval O, Thevenet M, Zhang W. Warp-X: A new exascale computing platform for beam–plasma simulations. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 2018 Nov, 909(12) Pages 476-479. DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2018.01.035
Kirchen M, Lehe R, Jalas S, Shapoval O, Vay JL, Maier AR. Scalable spectral solver in Galilean coordinates for eliminating the numerical Cherenkov instability in particle-in-cell simulations of streaming plasmas. Physical Review E. 2020 July, 102(1-1):013202. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.102.013202
Shapoval O, Vay JL, Vincenti H. Two-step perfectly matched layer for arbitrary-order pseudo-spectral analytical time-domain methods. Computer Physics Communications. 2019 Feb, 235, pages 102-110. DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2018.09.015
Lehe R, Kirchen M, Godfrey BB, Maier AR, Vay JL. Elimination of numerical Cherenkov instability in flowing-plasma particle-in-cell simulations by using galilean coordinates. Physical Review E. 2016 Nov, 94:053305. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.94.053305