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Several state-of-the-art programs to model charged particles dynamics exist. Most of them are listed in Wikipedia articles on Accelerator physics codes and Particle-in-cell method.
Broadly speaking, the codes can be categorized in the following way: beam dynamics with PIC for space charge, plasma simulation, high-energy beams, other applications.
Beam dynamics with PIC for space charge
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Warp is the most interesting open-source code in this category. It is not tailored to low-energy beams, but provides space charge support. It has most of the desired functionality and certain very advanced features such as support for curved meshes.
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SNOP - implements PIC
Several commercial packages are also available:
- CST Studio
- Opera
- Simion - for ions only.
- EGUN-IGUN
Plasma physics
Two of the most interesting open source codes are
- Smilei -- strong team, development progresses quickly.
- PIConGPU -- the most successful attempt to implement multi-GPU particle-in-cell.
Besides, there are a lot of other codes:
- P-I-C-S-A-R
- OSIRIS, MAGTAIL, PARSEC, QuickPIC, UPIC, and OSHUN" https://plasmasim.physics.ucla.edu/codes
- Educational codes http://picksc.idre.ucla.edu/software/skeleton-code/software-skeleton-code-openmpmpi/
High-energy physics
Most codes in this category do not implement PIC for space charge
and use simpler methods to take particle-particle interaction into account.
- Mad seems to be de facto standard here.
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Single Particle- Single Particle in Free Space
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Single Particle In Uniform Electric Field
Electron Beams - Ribbon Beam Contour
- Contour of Ribbon Beam In Uniform Magnetic Field
- Axially Symmetric Beam Contour
- Contour of Axially Symmetric Beam In Uniform Magnetic Field
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Potential well of cylindrical beam in tube
Other - Conducting Sphere Potential
- Child-Langmuir Law for Planar Diode
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