Vacuum high harmonic generation in the shock regime
Plasma Physics
2015-09-16 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Optics
Abstract
Electrodynamics becomes nonlinear and permits the self-interaction of fields when the quantised nature of vacuum states is taken into account. The effect on a plane probe pulse propagating through a stronger constant crossed background is calculated using numerical simulation and by analytically solving the corresponding wave equation. The electromagnetic shock resulting from vacuum high harmonic generation is investigated and a nonlinear shock parameter identified.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1503.05192,
title = {Vacuum high harmonic generation in the shock regime},
author = {P. Böhl and B. King and H. Ruhl},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.05192},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
19 pages, 16 figures