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The Lagrangian formulation of the scalar and spinor quantum electrodynamics (QED) in the presence of strong laser fields in a plasma medium is considered. We include the plasma influence in the free Lagrangian analogously to the "Furry…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Erez Raicher , Shalom Eliezer , Arie Zigler

Quantum-gravity effects may introduce relevant consequences for the propagation and interaction of high energy cosmic rays particles. Assuming the space-time foamy structure results in an intrinsic uncertainty of energy and momentum of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Aloisio , P. Blasi , A. Galante , P. L. Ghia , A. F. Grillo

Strong field physics close to or above the Schwinger limit are typically studied with vacuum as initial condition, or by considering test particle dynamics. However, with a plasma present initially, quantum relativistic mechanisms such as…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Gert Brodin , Haidar Al-Naseri , Jens Zamanian , Greger Torgrimsson , Bengt Eliasson

We study the quantum corrections to the oblique propagation of the magnetosonic waves in a warm quantum magnetoplasma composed by mobile ions and electrons. We use a fluid formalism to include quantum corrections due to the Bohm potential…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-10-04 Felipe A. Asenjo

Dense quantum plasmas are ubiquitous in planetary interiors and in compact astrophysical objects, in semiconductors and micro-mechanical systems, as well as in the next generation intense laser-solid density plasma interaction experiments…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Padma K. Shukla , Bengt Eliasson

While a plane-wave approximation in high-energy physics works well in a majority of practical cases, it becomes inapplicable for scattering of the vortex particles carrying orbital angular momentum, of Airy beams, of the so-called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-23 Dmitry Karlovets

Chaotic electromagnetic fields are common in many relativistic plasma environments, where they can be excited by instabilities on kinetic spatial scales. When strong electric fluctuations exist on sub-electron scales, they may lead to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-05-10 Brett D. Keenan , Mikhail V. Medvedev

The quantum electrodynamical (QED) short wavelength correction on plasma wave propagation for a non-relativistic quantum plasma is investigated. A general dispersion relation for a thermal multi-component quantum plasma is derived. It is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-03-19 J. Lundin , J. Zamanian , M. Marklund , G. Brodin

A dispersion equation, which describes the interaction of low density electron beam with a degenerate electron quantum plasma, is derived and examined for some interesting cases. In addition to the instabilities similar to those for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Levan N. Tsintsadze , Nodar L. Tsintsadze

Ultra-magnetized plasmas, where the magnetic field strength exceeds the Schwinger field of about $B_{Q}\approx4\times10^{13}$~gauss, become of great scientific interest, thanks to the current advances in laser-plasma experiments and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Mikhail V. Medvedev

The investigation of spin and polarization effects in ultra-high intensity laser-plasma and laser-beam interactions has become an emergent topic in high-field science recently. In this paper we derive a relativistic kinetic description of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Daniel Seipt , Alec G. R. Thomas

The model of unstable particles with random mass is suggested to describe the finite-width effects. The phenomenological manifestation of mass smearing is discussed in the framework of the model.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. I. Kuksa

Quantum electrodynamics near a boundary is investigated by considering the inertial mass shift of an electron near a dielectric or conducting surface. We show that in all tractable cases the shift can be written in terms of integrals over…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-14 Robert Bennett , Claudia Eberlein

The current understanding of some important nonlinear collective processes in quantum plasmas with degenerate electrons is presented. After reviewing the basic properties of quantum plasmas, we present model equations (e.g. the quantum…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 P. K. Shukla , B. Eliasson

By assuming that the kinetic energy,potential energy,momentum,and some other physical quantities of a particle exist in the field out of the particle,the Schrodinger equation is an equation describing field of a particle,but not the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gang Zhao

Quantum effects play an essential role in modern cosmology. Perhaps the most striking example comes from large-scale structures, generally assumed to originate from vacuum quantum fluctuations and stretched by an expansion phase. Inflation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-08 Emmanuel Frion

With the aid of large-scale three-dimensional QED-PIC simulations, we describe a realistic experimental configuration to measure collective effects that couple strong field quantum electrodynamics to plasma kinetics. For two counter…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Peng Zhang , A. G. R. Thomas , C. P. Ridgers

Consider a proposed model of the universe with $\hbar$ much greater than its well-known value of $10^{-34} Js$. In this model universe, very large objects can show quantum behaviors. In a scenario with large extra dimensions, $\hbar$ can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Kourosh Nozari , Behnaz Fazlpour

Quantum computing is gaining increased attention as a potential way to speed up simulations of physical systems, and it is also of interest to apply it to simulations of classical plasmas. However, quantum information science is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 I. Y. Dodin , E. A. Startsev

The behavior of the quantum potential is studied for a particle in a linear and a harmonic potential by means of an extended phase space technique. This is done by obtaining an expression for the quantum potential in momentum space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-24 Sadollah Nasiri