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According to quantum electrodynamics (QED), a strong external field can make the vacuum state decay producing electron-positron pairs. Here we investigate emission of soft photons which accompanies a nonperturbative process of pair…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-22 I. A. Aleksandrov , A. Di Piazza , G. Plunien , V. M. Shabaev

We investigate a single-laser scheme for reaching the strong-field QED regime based on direct laser acceleration (DLA) of electrons followed by their head-on collision with the same laser pulse reflected from an overdense foil. In this…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Robert Babjak , Marija Vranic

For complete development of quantum electrodynamics in the presence of a strong external field, the proper understanding of resonant processes and all their peculiarities is essential. We present our attempt to analytically investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-05 Sergei P. Roshchupkin , Nikita R. Larin , Victor V. Dubov

QED-effects are known to occur in a strong laser pulse interaction with a counter-propagating electron beam, among these effects being electron-positron pair creation. We discuss the range of laser pulse intensities of J > 5*10^22 W/cm2…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-11-11 Igor V. Sokolov , Natalia M. Naumova , John A. Nees , Gerard A. Mourou

Intense field quantum field theory (IFQFT) is used to determine new phenomenological predictions arising from Compton scattering and pair production in a strong laser field. This theory utilizes exact solutions of fermions embedded in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-30 A. Hartin

We discuss a two-fold extension of QED assuming the presence of strong external fields provided by an ultra-intense laser and noncommutativity of spacetime. While noncommutative effects leave the electron's intensity induced mass shift…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-14 Thomas Heinzl , Anton Ilderton , Mattias Marklund

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…

It is conjectured that all perturbative approaches to quantum electrodynamics (QED) break down in the collision of a high-energy electron beam with an intense laser, when the laser fields are boosted to `supercritical' strengths far greater…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-13 T. G. Blackburn , A. Ilderton , M. Marklund , C. P. Ridgers

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

The feasibility of obtaining exact analytical results in the realm of QED in the presence of a background electromagnetic field is almost exclusively limited to a few tractable cases, where the Dirac equation in the corresponding background…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-04 A. Di Piazza

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

Strong-field quantum electrodynamics (SF-QED) plays a crucial role in ultraintense laser matter interactions, and demands sophisticated techniques to understand the related physics with new degrees of freedom, including spin angular…

QED cascades are complex avalanche processes of hard photon emission and electron-positron pair creation driven by ultra-strong electromagnetic fields. They play a fundamental role in astrophysical environments such as a pulsars'…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-07-25 Matteo Tamburini , Antonino Di Piazza , Christoph H. Keitel

When photons propagate in vacuum they may fluctuate into matter pairs thus allowing the vacuum to be polarised. This linear effect leads to charge screening and renormalisation. When exposed to an intense background field a nonlinear effect…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-06 A. J. Macleod , J. P. Edwards , T. Heinzl , B. King , S. V. Bulanov

State-of-the-art numerical simulations of quantum electrodynamical (QED) processes in strong laser fields rely on a semiclassical combination of classical equations of motion and QED rates, which are calculated in the locally constant field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-01 T. G. Blackburn , A. J. MacLeod , B. King

We propose a simple circuit quantum electrodynamics (QED) experiment to test the generation of entanglement between two superconducting qubits. Instead of the usual cavity QED picture, we study qubits which are coupled to an open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 C. Sabin , J. J. Garcia-Ripoll , E. Solano , J. Leon

QED cascades play an important role in extreme astrophysical environments like magnetars. They can also be produced by passing a relativistic electron beam through an intense laser field. Signatures of collective pair plasma effects in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Kenan Qu , Sebastian Meuren , Nathaniel J. Fisch

We show that an all-optical configuration of the laser-electron collision in the $\lambda^{3}$ configuration based on 10 PW-class lasers presents a viable platform for reaching the range of parameters where a perturbative QED in strong…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-22 M. Jirka , P. V. Sasorov , S. V. Bulanov

The exceptionally strong coupling realizable between superconducting qubits and photons stored in an on-chip microwave resonator allows for the detailed study of matter-light interactions in the realm of circuit quantum electrodynamics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-21 J. M. Fink , M. Baur , R. Bianchetti , S. Filipp , M. Göppl , P. J. Leek , L. Steffen , A. Blais , A. Wallraff