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In the dynamically assisted Schwinger mechanism, the pair production probability is significantly enhanced by including a weak, rapidly varying field in addition to a strong, slowly varying field. In a previous paper we showed that several…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-16 Greger Torgrimsson

We investigate the effect of pair creation on a shock structure. Actually, particles accelerated by a shock can be sufficiently energetic to boost, via Inverse Compton (IC) process for example, surrounding soft photons above the rest mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 P. O. Petrucci , G. Henri , G. Pelletier

The non-linear (strong-field) Breit-Wheeler $e^+e^-$ pair production by a probe photon traversing two consecutive short and ultra short (sub-cycle) laser pulses is considered within a QED framework. The temporal shape of the pulses and the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 A. I. Titov , B. Kampfer , H. Takabe

The spectrum of a CW field whose phase experiences a periodic sawtooth modulation is analyzed. Two types of the sawtooth phase modulation are considered. One is created by combining many harmonics of the fundamental frequency. The second is…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-23 R. N. Shakhmuratov

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

The power spectrum formula of the synchrotron radiation generated by the electron and positron moving at the opposite angular velocities in homogenous magnetic field is derived in the Schwinger version of quantum field theory. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Miroslav Pardy

With the rapid development of high-power petawatt class lasers worldwide, exploring physics in the strong field QED regime will become one of the frontiers for laser-plasma interactions research. Particle-in-cell codes, including quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-17 Qian Qian , Daniel Seipt , Marija Vranic , Thomas E. Grismayer , Tom G. Blackburn , Christopher P. Ridgers , Alexander G. R. Thomas

The creation of electron-positron pairs by the strong-field Breit-Wheeler process in intense short laser pulses is investigated in the framework of laser-dressed quantum electrodynamics. Regarding laser field parameters in the multiphoton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-01 Martin J. A. Jansen , Carsten Müller

In the context of quantum electrodynamics, the decay of false vacuum leads to the production of electron-positron pair, a phenomenon known as the Schwinger effect. In practical experimental scenarios, producing a pair requires an extremely…

According to the Schwinger mechanism, a uniform electric field brings about pair productions in vacuum; the relationship between the production rate and the electric field is different, depending on the dimension of the system. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-29 Kazuhiro Yokota , Nobuyuki Imoto

Using semiclassical WKB-methods, we calculate the rate of electron-positron pair-production from the vacuum in the presence of two external fields, a strong (space- or time-dependent) classical field and a monochromatic electromagnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-09-09 Hagen Kleinert , She-Sheng Xue

The absorption of traveling photons resonant with electric dipole transitions of an atomic gas naturally leads to electric dipole spin wave excitations. For a number of applications, it would be highly desirable to shape and coherently…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Yizun He , Lingjing Ji , Yuzhuo Wang , Liyang Qiu , Jian Zhao , Yudi Ma , Xing Huang , Saijun Wu , Darrick E. Chang

An effective operational approach to quantum mechanics is to focus on the evolution of wave-packets, for which the wave-function can be seen in the semi-classical regime as representing a classical motion dressed with extra degrees of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 Etera R. Livine

Electron-positron pair creation occurs throughout the universe in the environments of extreme astrophysical objects, such as pulsar magnetospheres and black hole accretion disks. The difficulty of emulating these environments in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 B. Barbosa , J. P. Palastro , D. Ramsey , K. Weichman , M. Vranic

Vacuum instability of the strong electromagnetic field has been discussed since long time ago. The instability of the strong electric field due to creation of electron pairs is one of the examples, which is known as Schwinger process. What…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-19 Hyun Kyu Lee

The pair-production process in the presence of strong linearly polarized laser fields with a subcycle structure is considered. Laser pulses with different envelope shapes are examined by means of a nonperturbative numerical technique. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-21 I. A. Aleksandrov , G. Plunien , V. M. Shabaev

We study electron-positron pair production by spatially inhomogeneous electric fields. Depending on the localization of the field, a critical point (critical surface) exists in the space of field configurations where the pair production…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-08 Holger Gies , Greger Torgrimsson

The process of electron positron pair annihilation, driven by strong fields (Inverse Schwinger mechanism) and high-frequency waves, is studied using the Dirac Heisenberg Wigner formalism. In an electron positron plasma, the presence of a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Haidar Al-Naseri

As demonstrated in our previous work [J. Chem. Phys. 149, 174109 (2018)], the kinetic energy imparted to a quantum rotor by a non-resonant electromagnetic pulse with a Gaussian temporal profile exhibits quasi-periodic drops as a function of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 Mallikarjun Karra , Bretislav Friedrich , Burkhard Schmidt

Nonlinear wave interactions affect the evolution of steep wave groups, their breaking and the associated kinematic field. Laboratory experiments are performed to investigate the effect of the underlying focussing mechanism on the shape of…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2018-03-05 Alberto Alberello , Amin Chabchoub , Jason Monty , Filippo Nelli , Jung Lee , John Elsnab , Alessandro Toffoli