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In a recent work [Bret, EPL \textbf{135} (2021) 35001], quantum electrodynamic (QED) effects were evaluated for the two-stream instability. It pertains to the growth of perturbations with a wave vector oriented along the flow in a…

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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…

The energy loss of a relativistic charge undergoing multiple scatterings while traversing an infinite, polarizable and absorptive plasma is investigated. Polarization and damping mechanisms in the medium are phenomenologically modelled by a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-09-18 Marcus Bluhm , Pol Bernard Gossiaux , Joerg Aichelin

Current quantum cascade lasers based upon conduction band electron transitions are predominantly TM (electrical field normal to the epitaxial direction) polarized. Here we present a study of localized defect modes, with the requisite TM…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kartik Srinivasan , Oskar Painter

We study large extra dimension effects on the polarizations of the $W$ pair and electron beam at the $e^+ e^-\to W^+ W^-$ process. It is shown that the measurements of the cross section for transversely polarized $W$ pair with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Kang Young Lee , H. S. Song , JeongHyeon Song

We consider a system of two coupled particles evolving in a periodic and spatially symmetric potential under the influence of external driving and damping. The particles are driven individually in such a way that in the uncoupled regime,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-05-27 Colm Mulhern , Dirk Hennig , Andrew D. Burbanks

As an extension of the previous work [arXiv: 1512.02411], we have investigated the role of circularly polarized (CP) laser pulses while keeping other conditions the same. It is found that in the presence of large scale pre-formed plasmas,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 D. Wu , S. I. Krasheninnikov , S. X. Luan , W. Yu

The recently observed dependence of the periodic surface structures on the light polarization in the laser induced pattern formation is analyzed within a model where the polarization induces significant deviation the spatial distribution of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-02-26 S. Varlamov , M. Bestehorn , O. Varlamova , J. Reif

In recent years, a rigorous quantum mechanical model for the interaction between light and macroscopic dispersive, lossy dielectrics has emerged -macroscopic QED- allowing the application of the usual methods of quantum field theory. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-12 S. Bugler-Lamb , S. A. R. Horsley

Spin correlations are carefully investigated in elastic $e^{+}e^{-}$ scattering in QED, for initially \textit{polarized} as well as \textit{unpolarized} particles, with emphasis placed on energy or speed of the underlying particles involved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-07-14 Nattapong Yongram

The acceleration of protons and electrons in a reconnecting current sheet (RCS) is simulated with a particle-in-cell (PIC) 2D3V code for the proton-to-electron mass ratio of 100. The electro-magnetic configuration forming the RCS…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Taras V. Siversky , Valentina V. Zharkova

Electron-positron pair production in dynamically assisted two-color electric fields is investigated for various polarizations. Momentum spectrum and number density of the created pairs are examined carefully, in particular, the effects of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-10 Obulkasim Olugh , Zi-Liang Li , Bai-Song Xie

The dynamics of electric field generation and radial acceleration of ions by a laser pulse of relativistic intensity propagating in an underdense plasma has been investigated using an one-dimensional electrostatic, ponderomotive model…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-07-30 A. Macchi , F. Ceccherini , F. Cornolti , S. Kar , M. Borghesi

Polarized e- and e+ at the International Linear Collider play an important role for discovering physics beyond the Standard Model and for precisely unravelling the structure of the underlying physics. The physics programme at the first…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Gudrid Moortgat-Pick

We investigate, through simulation, the evolution of polarization states during atmospheric propagation of high power, ultrashort laser pulses. A delayed rotational response model handling arbitrary, transverse polarization couples both the…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-16 J. P. Palastro

We investigate quantum electrodynamic effects under the influence of an external, time-dependent electromagnetic field, which mediates dynamic modifications of the radiative corrections. Specifically, we consider the quantum electrodynamic…

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In strong electromagnetic fields, unique plasma phenomena and applications emerge, whose description requires recently developed theories and simulations [Y. Shi, Ph.D. thesis, Princeton University (2018)]. In the classical regime, to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Yuan Shi , Hong Qin , Nathaniel J. Fisch

Converging cylindrical electromagnetic fields in vacuum have been shown (E. I. Zababakhin, M. N. Nechaev, {\it Soviet Physics JETP}, {\bf 6}, 345 (1958)) to exhibit amplitude "cumulation". It was found that the amplitude of self-similar…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-04-20 F. Pegoraro , S. V. Bulanov

QED radiative corrections to elastic electron-proton scattering at low energies are discussed. Corrections to the electron line and effects due to vacuum polarization are computed. Higher order effects are estimated for the conditions of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-11 A. B. Arbuzov , T. V. Kopylova

We formulate a model of a semiconductor Quantum Dot laser with injection of spin-polarized electrons. As compared to higher-dimensionality structures, the Quantum-Dot-based active region is known to improve laser properties, including the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-03 Rafał Oszwałdowski , Christian Gøthgen , Igor Žutić