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The effect of vacuum polarization on the parity violating asymmetry in the elastic electron-nucleus scattering is considered. Calculations are performed in the high-energy approximation with an exact account for the electric field of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. I. Milstein , O. P. Sushkov

A hybrid Maxwell solver for fully relativistic and electromagnetic (EM) particle-in-cell (PIC) codes is described. In this solver, the EM fields are solved in $k$ space by performing an FFT in one direction, while using finite difference…

Effective hadron models commonly require the computation of functional determinants. In the static case these are one--loop vacuum polarization energies, known as Casimir energies. In this talk I will present general methods to efficiently…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Weigel

This work further develops the calculation of QED effects in a finite Gaussian basis. We focus on the non-linear ${\alpha}(Z{\alpha})^{n\ge 3}$ contribution to the vacuum polarization density, computing the energy shift of 1s$_{1/2}$ states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Ryan Benazzouk , Maen Salman , Trond Saue

This work presents a deep learning-based framework for the solution of partial differential equations on complex computational domains described with computer-aided design tools. To account for the underlying distribution of the training…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Moritz von Tresckow , Stefan Kurz , Herbert De Gersem , Dimitrios Loukrezis

Vacuum polarization of a massive scalar field in the background of a two-dimensional version of a spinning cosmic string is investigated. It is shown that when the `radius of the universe' is such that spacetime is globally hyperbolic the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-27 V. A. De Lorenci , E. S. Moreira,

We compute the vacuum polarization energies for a couple of soliton models in one space and one time dimensions. These solitons are mappings that connect different degenerate vacua. From the considered sample solitons we conjecture that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-26 H. Weigel

Microscopic many-body theory coupled to Maxwell's equation is used to investigate dual-wavelength operation in vertical external-cavity surface-emitting lasers. The intrinsically dynamic nature of coexisting emission wavelengths in…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-27 I. Kilen , J. Hader , S. W. Koch , J. V. Moloney

We investigate the polarization fluctuations caused by quantum noise in quantum well vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs). Langevin equations are derived on the basis of a generalized rate equation model in which the influence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Holger F. Hofmann , Ortwin Hess

All experimental evidence {indicates} that the vacuum is not void, but filled with something truly quantum. This is reflected by terms such as {zero-point} fluctuations, and Dirac's sea of virtual particle-antiparticle pairs, and last but…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Gerd Leuchs , Luis L. Sanchez-Soto

A stable volume integral equation (VIE) solver based on polarization/magnetization currents is presented, for the accurate and efficient computation of the electromagnetic scattering from highly inhomogeneous and high contrast objects.We…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Ioannis P. Georgakis , Ilias I. Giannakopoulos , Mikhail S. Litsarev , Athanasios G. Polimeridis

Electromagnetic waves arise in many area of physics. Solutions are difficult to find in the general case. In this paper, we numerically integrate Maxwell equations in a 3D spherical polar coordinate system. Straightforward finite difference…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-26 J. Petri

We discuss a class of exact finite energy solutions to the vacuum source-free Maxwell field equations as models for multi- and single cycle laser pulses in classical interaction with relativistic charged test particles. These solutions are…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-17 S. Goto , R. W. Tucker , T. J. Walton

We consider a scalar QED model for the frictional force and the momentum fluctuations of a polarizable particle in thermal equilibrium with radiation or in hyperbolic motion in a vacuum. In the former case the loss of particle kinetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-09 Kanu Sinha , Peter W. Milonni

We present a full-wave Maxwell-density matrix simulation tool including c-number stochastic noise terms for the modeling of the spatiotemporal dynamics in active photonic devices, such as quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) and quantum dot (QD)…

Implicit electron-density solvation models based on joint density-functional theory offer a computationally efficient solution to the problem of calculating thermodynamic quantities of solvated systems from firstprinciples quantum…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-02-12 Deniz Gunceler , T. A. Arias

The quantum vacuum fluctuations of a neutral scalar field induced by background zero-range potentials concentrated on a flat hyperplane of co-dimension $1$ in $(d+1)$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime are investigated. Perfectly reflecting…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-04-09 Davide Fermi

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…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 A. I. Milstein , I. S. Terekhov , U. D. Jentschura , C. H. Keitel

Coupled wave equations are popular tool for investigating longitudinal dynamical effects in semiconductor lasers, for example, sensitivity to delayed optical feedback. We study a model that consists of a hyperbolic linear system of partial…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-08-12 Jan Sieber

The vacuum fluctuations give rise to a number of phenomena; however, the the Casimir Effect is arguably the most salient manifestation of the quantum vacuum. In its most basic form it is realized through the interaction of a pair of neutral…

General Physics · Physics 2011-08-31 Richard Obousy