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Quarks play an active role in shaping the QCD vacuum structure. Being dual carriers of both `color' and `electric' charges they also respond to externally applied electromagnetic fields. Thus, in principle, the vacuum of strong interactions…

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The advent of visible-infrared laser pulses carrying a substantial fraction of their energy in a single field oscillation cycle has opened a new era in the experimental investigation of ultrafast processes in semiconductors and dielectrics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Stanislav Yu. Kruchinin , Ferenc Krausz , Vladislav S. Yakovlev

Available laser technology is opening the possibility of testing QED experimentally in the so-called strong-field regime. This calls for developing theoretical tools to investigate strong-field QED processes in electromagnetic fields of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-23 A. Di Piazza

We formulate a stochastic generalisation of the Schwinger effect, extending pair production to statistically fluctuating gauge-field backgrounds. Our approach captures realistic field configurations that are transient, inhomogeneous, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-11 Lucas Vicente García-Consuegra , Azadeh Maleknejad

We study the electron-positron pair production process in strong background electric fields with spatio-temporal inhomogeneity in the time-dependent Basis Light-front Quantization approach. We calculate the observables such as the invariant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-06 Zhiyu Lei , Bolun Hu , Xingbo Zhao

We numerically investigate the temporal behavior and the structure of longitudinal momentum spectrum and the field polarity effect on pair production in pulsed electric fields in scalar quantum electrodynamics (QED). Using the evolution…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-07-24 Sang Pyo Kim , Hyung Won Lee , Remo Ruffini

We analytically describe the strong-field light-electron interaction using a quantized coherent laser state with arbitrary photon number. We obtain a light-electron wave function which is a closed-form solution of the time-dependent…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-03-20 I. A. Gonoskov , N. Tsatrafyllis , I. K. Kominis , P. Tzallas

We investigate the combined effects of carrier envelope phase and laser pulse shape on electron-positron pair production in the presence of an external asymmetric super-Gaussian electric field by solving the quantum Vlasov equation. By…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Abhinav Jangir , Anees Ahmed

We introduce the Wigner functional representing a quantum field in terms of the field amplitudes and their conjugate momenta. The equation of motion for the functional of a scalar field point out the relevance of solutions of the classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 S. Mrowczynski , B. Mueller

Our goal is to study optical signatures of quantum vacuum nonlinearities in strong macroscopic electromagnetic fields provided by high-intensity laser beams. The vacuum emission scheme is perfectly suited for this task as it naturally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-22 Alexander Blinne , Holger Gies , Felix Karbstein , Christian Kohlfürst , Matt Zepf

Although existing technology cannot yet directly produce fields at the Schwinger level, experimental facilities can already explore strong-field QED phenomena by taking advantage of the Lorentz boost of energetic electron beams. Recent…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Kenan Qu , Sebastian Meuren , Nathaniel J. Fisch

Quantum electrodynamics predicts x-ray diffractions under a high-intensity laser field via virtual charged particles, and this phenomenon is called as vacuum diffraction (VD). In this paper, we derive a new formula to describe VD in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-29 Y. Seino , T. Inada , T. Yamazaki , T. Namba , S. Asai

With the appearance of superpower laser sources of relativistic/ultrarelativistic intensities in the last decade, the laser-QED-vacuum-matter interaction physics has entered a new phase that makes real the observation of many nonlinear…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-13 H. K. Avetissian

Modern ultra-intense laser facilities can generate electromagnetic fields strong enough to accelerate particles to near-light speeds over micron-scale distances and also approach the QED critical field, resulting in highly nonlinear and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Q. Qian , D. Seipt , M. Vranic , T. Grismayer , C. P. Ridgers , A. G. R. Thomas

Ultra-intense laser pulses can create sufficiently strong fields to probe quantum electrodynamics effects in a novel regime. By colliding a 60 GeV electron bunch with a laser pulse focussed to the maximum achievable intensity of $10^{23}$…

A two-beam high-power laser facility is essential for the study of one of the most captivating phenomena predicted by strong-field quantum electrodynamics (QED) and yet unobserved experimentally: the avalanche-type cascade. In such a…

The tremendous progress in high-intensity laser technology and the establishment of dedicated high-field laboratories in recent years have paved the way towards a first observation of quantum vacuum nonlinearities at the high-intensity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-11 Holger Gies , Felix Karbstein , Christian Kohlfürst , Nico Seegert

We discuss electron-positron pair-production by super-intense, short laser pulses off the physical vacuum state locally deformed by (stripped) nuclei with large nuclear charges. Consequences of non-perturbative vacuum polarisation resulting…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Klaus Dietz , Michael Proebsting

We introduce a Lagrangian-space Effective Field Theory (LEFT) formalism for the study of cosmological large scale structures. Unlike the previous Eulerian-space construction, it is naturally formulated as an effective field theory of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Rafael A. Porto , Leonardo Senatore , Matias Zaldarriaga

In this study, we utilize intense laser pulses and advanced quantum mechanical frameworks to investigate the behavior of high-velocity electrons within magnetized plasma environments. The focus of our research is placed within the context…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 B. S. Sharma , Garima Yadav , N. K. Jaiman , D. N. Gupta