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The extreme intensities obtainable with lasers such as Gemini allow non-linear QED phenomena to be investigated according to our calculations. Electron-positron pair production from a pure vacuum target, which has yet to be observed…

Novel triangular lattice photonic crystal fiber with a very large negative flattened dispersion over the S+C+L band, and very high birefringence is offered here. To investigate different optical properties of the proposed fiber, finite…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-06-02 Md Borhan Mia , Kanan Roy Chowdhury , Animesh Bala , Mohammad Faisal

In this article, we provide analytical expressions for the photon polarization tensor in pulsed Hermite- and Laguerre-Gaussian laser beams. Our results are based on a locally constant field approximation of the one-loop Heisenberg-Euler…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-06 Felix Karbstein , Elena A. Mosman

We investigate strong field vacuum effects using a phase space approach based on the Wigner formalism. We calculate the Wigner function in a strong null-field background exactly, using lightfront field theory. The Wigner function exhibits…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-05 Florian Hebenstreit , Anton Ilderton , Mattias Marklund , Jens Zamanian

Solutions of a kinetic equation are investigated which describe, on a nonperturbative basis, the vacuum creation of quasiparticle electron-positron pairs due to a strong laser field. The dependence of the quasiparticle electron (positron)…

Electromagnetic waves propagating through vacuum can polarize virtual electron-positron pairs; this polarization, in turn, nonlinearly modifies their propagation. A semi-classical nonlinear wave equation describing the propagation is…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-08 D. Ramsey , M. S. Formanek , J. P. Palastro

Fiber optic current sensors (FOCS) are widely adopted in modern power grids due to high sensitivity, excellent insulation, and strong immunity to electromagnetic interference. This prominence necessitates precise investigation into their…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-26 Yuechen Liu , Boqi Meng

It is shown that, through a super-radiant Rayleigh scattering, a strong far off-resonant pump laser applied to a Bose-Einstein condensates(BEC) can induce a non-demolition coupling of the many-mode quantized vacuum field to the BEC. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. P. Sun

The use of resonant depolarization has been suggested for precise beam energy measurements (better than 100 keV) in the $e^{+}e^{-}$ Future Circular Collider (FCC-$e^{+}e^{-}$) for Z and WW physics at 45 and 80 GeV beam energy respectively.…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-05-09 E. Gianfelice-Wendt

This paper describes the demonstration of linearly polarized picosecond pulse shaping with variable profiles including symmetric and non-symmetric intensity distributions. Important characteristics such as stability and transmission were…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-21 Fangming Liu , Senlin Huang , Kexin Liu , Shukui Zhang

We study theoretically the accuracy of the method based on the Fourier property of lenses that is commonly used for the far field measurement. We consider a simple optical setup in which the far-field intensity pattern of a light beam…

Optics · Physics 2013-07-19 Pierre Suret , Stephane Randoux

Cosmic birefringence (CB) is a promising probe of parity-violating physics beyond the Standard Model, characterized by the rotation of the linear polarization plane of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons. This effect, quantified by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Jiazheng Dou , Wen Zhao

Spontaneous creation of electron-positron pairs out of the vacuum due to a strong electric field is a spectacular manifestation of the relativistic energy-momentum relation for the Dirac fermions. This fundamental prediction of Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-05 Nikodem Szpak , Ralf Schützhold

We examine the possibility to detect new SM-neutral vector bosons ($Z'$) that couple exclusively to leptons in the electron-positron mode of the Future Circular Collider (FCC-ee). Focusing on the $Z'$ production with a radiated photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-24 Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez , Baibhab Pattnaik , José Zurita

Correlated photons produced by spontaneous parametric down-conversion are an essential tool for quantum communication, especially suited for long-distance connections. To have a reasonable count rate after all the losses in the propagation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Valerio Scarani , Hugues de Riedmatten , Ivan Marcikic , Hugo Zbinden , Nicolas Gisin

Via a combination of analytical and numerical methods, we study electron-positron pair creation by the electromagnetic field ${\bf A}(t,{\bf r})=[f(ct-x)+f(ct+x)]{\bf e}_y$ of two colliding laser pulses. Employing a generalized WKB…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-14 Christian Kohlfürst , Naser Ahmadiniaz , Johannes Oertel , Ralf Schützhold

In this paper, we introduce a method for mapping profiles of internal electric fields in birefringent crystals based on the electro-optic Pockels effect and measuring phase differences of low-intensity polarized light. In the case of the…

The most characteristic functional property of antiferroelectric materials is the possibility to induce a phase transition from a non-polar to a polar phase by an electric field. Here, we investigate the effect of this field-induced phase…

The effects of electric field polarizations on pair production from a vacuum are investigated numerically by employing the real-time Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism. For few-cycle fields, it is found that the interference pattern in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Z. L. Li , D. Lu , B. S. Xie

The past ten years of physics with e+e- colliding experiments at LEP and SLAC have shown the success of these experiments on not only impressively proving the theoretical predictions of the Standard Model (SM), but also to help provide…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Christova , M. Jack , S. Riemann , T. Riemann