Pablo J. Bilbao

Highlights

Here are a few highlighted publications.
For a full list please see my Google Scholar, or the complete list below.
I try to get everything to Open-access if possible, if not you should be able to find manuscripts on ArXiV.

If you are interested in my current work you can check it out in my projects. Where you can find work at very different stages.

• P. J. Bilbao & L. O. Silva, “Radiation reaction cooling as a source of anisotropic momentum distributions with inverted populations.” Physical Review Letters 130, 165101 (2023). 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.165101
• C. D. Arrowsmith, P. Simon, P. J. Bilbao et al., “Laboratory realization of relativistic pair-plasma beams.” Nature Communications 15, 5029 (2024). 10.1038/s41467-024-49346-2
• P. J. Bilbao, T. Silva & L. O. Silva, “Radiative cooling induced coherent maser emission in relativistic plasmas.” Science Advances 11, eadt8912 (2025). 10.1126/sciadv.adt8912
• R. J. Ewart, M. Nastac, P. J. Bilbao et al., “Relaxation to universal non-Maxwellian equilibria in a collisionless plasma.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122, 17, e2417813122 (2025). 10.1073/pnas.2417813122
• C. D. Arrowsmith, F. Miniati, P. J. Bilbao et al., “Suppression of pair beam instabilities in a laboratory analogue of blazar pair cascades.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122, 45, e2513365122 (2025). 10.1073/pnas.2513365122

All Publications

A complete, continuously updated list is available on Google Scholar. Journal articles and preprints are listed below in reverse chronological order; conference abstracts are omitted for brevity.

• A. Wierzchucka, P. J. Bilbao, R. J. Ewart, D. A. Uzdensky & A. A. Schekochihin, “Two-phase structure of synchrotron-cooling-unstable relativistic plasma.” arXiv preprint 2609.07793 (2026). arXiv:2609.07793
• M. Radford, A. Alsulami, B. Martinez, P. Bilbao, T. Grismayer, L. O. Silva et al., “An axion framework for Particle-in-Cell codes with Monte-Carlo sampling: emission, absorption, and detailed balance in plasmas.” arXiv preprint 2604.24627 (2026). arXiv:2604.24627
• A. Wierzchucka, P. J. Bilbao, A. G. R. Thomas, D. A. Uzdensky & A. A. Schekochihin, “Double-adiabatic equations of state for relativistic plasmas.” arXiv preprint 2603.25669 (2026). arXiv:2603.25669
• J. W. D. Halliday, C. D. Arrowsmith, A. M. Goillot, P. J. Bilbao et al., “Laboratory observation of collective beam-plasma instabilities in a relativistic pair jet.” arXiv preprint 2602.16542 (2026). arXiv:2602.16542
• J. Joaquim, F. Assunção, P. J. Bilbao & L. O. Silva, “General-relativistic and non-ideal radiative cooling in neutron star magnetospheres.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 550, 2, stag1178 (2026). 10.1093/mnras/stag1178
• D. D. Carvalho, P. J. Bilbao, W. B. Mori, L. O. Silva & E. P. Alves, “Learning collision operators from plasma phase space data using differentiable simulators.” Journal of Plasma Physics 92, 3, E76 (2026). 10.1017/S0022377826101755
• M. Bochmann, K. G. Schlesinger, C. D. Arrowsmith, P. Alexaki, M. A. Poza et al., “Dynamical development of strength and stability of asteroid material under 440 GeV proton beam irradiation.” Nature Communications 16, 11710 (2025). 10.1038/s41467-025-66912-4
• P. J. Bilbao, T. Silva & L. O. Silva, “Phase-space shaping in wakefield accelerators due to betatron cooling.” arXiv preprint 2510.24567 (2025). arXiv:2510.24567
• C. D. Arrowsmith, F. Miniati, P. J. Bilbao et al., “Suppression of pair beam instabilities in a laboratory analogue of blazar pair cascades.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122, 45, e2513365122 (2025). 10.1073/pnas.2513365122
• R. J. Ewart, M. Nastac, P. J. Bilbao, T. Silva, L. O. Silva & A. A. Schekochihin, “Relaxation to universal non-Maxwellian equilibria in a collisionless plasma.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122, 17, e2417813122 (2025). 10.1073/pnas.2417813122
• P. J. Bilbao, T. Silva & L. O. Silva, “Radiative cooling induced coherent maser emission in relativistic plasmas.” Science Advances 11, 15, eadt8912 (2025). 10.1126/sciadv.adt8912
• T. Silva, P. J. Bilbao & L. O. Silva, “The electron cyclotron maser instability in laser-ionized plasmas.” arXiv preprint 2412.06783 (2024). arXiv:2412.06783
• C. D. Arrowsmith, P. Simon, P. J. Bilbao, A. F. A. Bott, S. Burger, H. Chen, F. D. Cruz et al., “Laboratory realization of relativistic pair-plasma beams.” Nature Communications 15, 5029 (2024). 10.1038/s41467-024-49346-2
• P. J. Bilbao, R. J. Ewart, F. Assunção, T. Silva & L. O. Silva, “Ring momentum distributions as a general feature of Vlasov dynamics in the synchrotron dominated regime.” Physics of Plasmas 31, 5, 052112 (2024). 10.1063/5.0206813
• P. J. Bilbao & L. O. Silva, “Radiation reaction cooling as a source of anisotropic momentum distributions with inverted populations.” Physical Review Letters 130, 165101 (2023). 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.165101
• C. Badiali, P. J. Bilbao, F. Cruz & L. O. Silva, “Machine-learning-based models in particle-in-cell codes for advanced physics extensions.” Journal of Plasma Physics 88, 6, 895880602 (2022). 10.1017/S0022377822001180
• L. A. Gizzi, E. Boella, L. Labate, F. Baffigi, P. J. Bilbao, F. Brandi, G. Cristoforetti et al., “Enhanced laser-driven proton acceleration via improved fast electron heating in a controlled pre-plasma.” Scientific Reports 11, 13728 (2021). 10.1038/s41598-021-93011-3

Talks

• “Radiative Dynamics and Instabilities in Strongly Magnetized Relativistic Plasmas.” JPP Frontiers of Plasma Physics Colloquium. Watch on Cassyni
• “Astrophysical Plasma Instabilities Driven by Radiative Cooling in…” Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), UC Santa Barbara. Watch on YouTube
• “Extreme Plasma Physics: Radiation and Collective Dynamics.” Department of Physics, University of Oxford. Watch on YouTube