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The influence of motion of ions and electron temperature on nonlinear one-dimensional plasma waves with velocity close to the speed of light in vacuum is investigated. It is shown that although the wavebreaking field weakly depends on mass…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Arsen G. Khachatryan

We revisit the exact microscopic equations (in differential, and equivalent integral form) ruling a relativistic cold plasma after the plane-wave Ansatz, without customary approximations. We show that in the Eulerian description the motion…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-07-14 Gaetano Fiore

In our contribution we give a brief overview of two widely discussed quantum processes: electron-positron pairs production off a probe photon propagating through a polarized short-pulsed electromagnetic (e.m.) (e.g.\ laser) wave field or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-02 Alexander I. Titov , Burkhard Kampfer , Atsushi Hosaka , Hideaki Takabe

Ultra-intense lasers are expected to produce, in near future, relativistic electron-positron plasma droplets. Considering the local photon production rate in complete leading order in quantum electrodynamics (QED), we point out that these…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Munshi G. Mustafa , B. Kampfer

A new model to study the dynamics of relativistic quantum plasmas using the quantum electrodynamical (QED) approach has been constructed to analyze the quantum effects, relativistic corrections, and electromagnetic interactions. Considering…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Priya Mishra , Punit Kumar

When a laser field is incident on an overdense plasma it is unable to penetrate inside it. Nevertheless, a part of its energy gets transferred to the electrons through a variety of mechanisms (e.g. vacuum and $\vec{J}\times \vec{B}) heating…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Devshree Mandal , Ayushi Vashistha , Amita Das

Laser-induced plasma formation and subsequent relaxation in solid dielectrics is the precursor to structural modifications that are accompanied by a permanent alteration of material properties. The decay of the electron-hole plasma through…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-08 P. Jürgens , M. J. J. Vrakking , R. Stoian , A. Mermillod-Blondin

The one-dimensional flight of a fast electron flux in plasma is investigated taking into account generation and absorption of plasma waves. The transition from the kinetic description to the gas dynamics is made. The closed set of gas…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-02-23 V. N. Mel'Nik

Experimental results on an auto-oscillatory pattern observed in a complex plasma are presented. The experiments are performed with an argon plasma which is produced under microgravity conditions using a capacitively-coupled rf discharge at…

We study the effect of stimulated photon emission from the vacuum in strong space-time-dependent electromagnetic fields. We emphasize the viewpoint that the vacuum subjected to macroscopic electromagnetic fields with at least one nonzero…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-15 Felix Karbstein , Rashid Shaisultanov

We study the long term evolution of magnetic fields generated by a collisionless relativistic $e^+e^-$ shock which is initially unmagnetized. Our 2D particle-in-cell numerical simulations show that downstream of such a Weibel-mediated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Chang , A. Spitkovsky , J. Arons

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

We analyze the creation of fermions and bosons from the vacuum by the exponentially decreasing in time electric field in detail. In our calculations we use QED and follow in main the consideration of particle creation effect in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 T. C. Adorno , S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman

The twisted magnetospheres of magnetars must sustain a persistent flow of electron-positron plasma. The flow dynamics is controlled by the radiation field around the hot neutron star. The problem of plasma motion in the self-consistent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Andrei M. Beloborodov

We study the dynamical generation of masses for fundamental fermions in quenched quantum electrodynamics in the presence of weak magnetic fields using Schwinger-Dyson equations. Contrary to the case where the magnetic field is strong, in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Alejandro Ayala , Adnan Bashir , Alfredo Raya , Eduardo Rojas

We derive a modified non-perturbative Lorentz-Abraham-Dirac equation. It satisfies the proper conservation laws, particularly, it conserves the generalized momentum, the latter property eliminates the symmetry-breaking runaway solution. The…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-28 Igor V. Sokolov , Natalia M. Naumova , John A. Nees , Gerard A. Mourou , Victor P. Yanovsky

We study the electric permittivity of the QED vacuum in the presence of a strong constant electric field, motivated by the analogy between the dynamically-assisted Schwinger effect in strong-field QED and the Franz-Keldysh effect in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-24 Hidetoshi Taya , Charlie Ironside

The ability of an intense laser pulse to propagate in a classically over-critical plasma through the phenomenon of relativistic transparency is shown to facilitate the generation of strong plasma magnetic fields. Particle-in-cell…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Oliver Jansen , Tao Wang , David Stark , Toma Toncian , Alexey Arefiev

Single MeV electrons subjected in vacuum to single high-intensity quadratically-chirped laser pulses are shown to gain multi-GeV energies. The laser pulses are modeled by finite-duration trapezoidal and $\cos^2$ pulse-shapes and the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Yousef I. Salamin , Najeh M. Jisrawi

Intense electromagnetic fields are created in the quark-gluon plasma by the external ultra-relativistic valence charges. The time-evolution and the strength of this field are strongly affected by the electrical conductivity of the plasma.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-04-25 Evan Stewart , Kirill Tuchin