# Numerical Stability Improvements for the Pseudospectral EM PIC Algorithm

@article{Godfrey2014NumericalSI,
title={Numerical Stability Improvements for the Pseudospectral EM PIC Algorithm},
author={Brendan B. Godfrey and Jean-Luc Vay and Irving Haber},
journal={IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science},
year={2014},
volume={42},
pages={1339-1344}
}
• Published 31 August 2013
• Physics
• IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
The pseudospectral analytical time-domain (PSATD) particle-in-cell algorithm solves the vacuum Maxwell's equations exactly, has no Courant time-step limit (as conventionally defined), and offers substantial flexibility in plasma and particle beam simulations. It is, however, not free of the usual numerical instabilities, including the numerical Cherenkov instability, when applied to relativistic beam simulations. This paper presents several approaches that, when combined with digital filtering…

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