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We demonstrated characterizing the electric field waveform of multi-terahertz pulses (10-50 THz) as vector quantities in the time domain by applying the polarization modulated electro-optic sampling (POMEOS) method. The problem of an…

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The optical theorem is applied to the process of electron-positron pair creation in the superposition of a nuclear Coulomb and a strong laser field. We derive new representations for the total production rate as two-fold integrals, both for…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. I. Milstein , C. Müller , K. Z. Hatsagortsyan , U. D. Jentschura , C. H. Keitel

The emission of electron-positron pairs off a probe photon propagating through a polarized short-pulsed electromagnetic (e.g.\ laser) wave field is analyzed. A significant increase of the total cross section of pair production in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 A. I. Titov , H. Takabe , B. Kampfer , A. Hosaka

In the burgeoning field of quantum computing, the precise design and optimization of quantum pulses are essential for enhancing qubit operation fidelity. This study focuses on refining the pulse engineering techniques for superconducting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-13 Annika S. Wiening , Joern Bergendahl , Vicente Leyton-Ortega , Peter Nalbach

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

We analyze and model rapid rotations of polarization orientations in PSR B1919+21's single pulses based on Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope observation data. In more than one-third of B1919+21's single pulses, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-04 Shunshun Cao , Jinchen Jiang , Jaroslaw Dyks , Kejia Lee , Jiguang Lu , Lucy S. Oswald , Weiyang Wang , Renxin Xu

In this work, we consider a parameterized Ising model with long-range symmetric pairwise interactions on a network of spin $\frac{1}{2}$ particles. The system is designed with symmetric dynamics, allowing for the reduction of the state…

We demonstrated for the first time the production of highly polarized short-pulse positrons with a finite energy spread in accordance with a new scheme that consists of two-quantum processes, such as inverse Compton scatterings and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Omori , M. Fukuda , T. Hirose , Y. Kurihara , R. Kuroda , M. Nomura , A. Ohashi , T. Okugi , K. Sakaue , T. Saito , J. Urakawa , M. Washio , I. Yamazaki

The $e^+e^-$ pair production by a probe photon traversing a linearly polarized laser pulse is treated as generalized nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process. For short laser pulses with very few oscillations of the electromagnetic field we find…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-04 T. Nousch , D. Seipt , B. Kampfer , A. I. Titov

The ultrafast formation of strongly bound excitons in two-dimensional semiconductors provide a rich platform for studying fundamental physics as well as developing novel optoelectronic technologies. While extensive research has explored the…

Two-qubit gates in trapped-ion quantum computers are generated by applying spin-dependent forces that temporarily entangle the internal state of the ion with its motion. Laser pulses are carefully designed to generate a maximally entangling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-21 Mingyu Kang , Qiyao Liang , Bichen Zhang , Shilin Huang , Ye Wang , Chao Fang , Jungsang Kim , Kenneth R. Brown

We investigate the effects of the asymmetric pulse shapes on electron-positron pair production in three distinct fields: chirp-free, small frequency chirp, and large frequency chirp fields via the real-time Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-31 Neng-Zhi Chen , Orkash Amat , Li-Na Hu , Hong-Hao Fan , Bai-Song Xie

A derivation of fully polarization-resolved probabilities is provided for high-energy photon emission and electron-positron pair production in ultrastrong laser fields. The probabilities resolved in both electron spin and photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-13 Yue-Yue Chen , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel , Rashid Shaisultanov

Relativistic spin-polarized positron beams are indispensable for future electron-positron colliders to test modern high-energy physics theory with high precision. However, present techniques require very large scale facilities for those…

We propose an all-optical, single-laser-pulse scheme for generating dense, relativistic, strongly-magnetized electron-positron pair plasma. The scheme involves the interaction of an extremely intense ($I \gtrsim \SI{e24}{\watt/\cm^2}$)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Alexander Samsonov , Alexander Pukhov

We investigate the conditions required for the production of electron-positron pairs above a pulsar polar cap (PC) and the influence of pair production on the energetics of the primary particle acceleration. Assuming space-charge limited…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Alice K. Harding , Alexander G. Muslimov , Bing Zhang

The electron induced production of positrons is a multi-parameter problem which combines elementary physics processes with complex collection systems. The optimization of this technique for 120~MeV and 1000~MeV electron beam kinetic…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-01-10 Sami Habet , Andriy Ushakov , Eric Voutier

We investigate the creation of electron-positron pairs (EPPs) in a sequence of alternating-sign, time-dependent electric field pulse trains by solving the quantum Vlasov equations. Specifically, we focus on Sauter-like pulse trains with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Deepak Sah , Manoranjan P. Singh

A standard procedure to achieve accurate, precise, and fast polarization measurement is to choose analyzing and generating polarization states that yield an $\ell^2$-condition number optimized instrument matrix. This strategy works well for…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-30 Yuxi Cai , An Aloysius Wang , Chao He

We numerically investigate the temporal behavior and the structure of longitudinal momentum spectrum and the field polarity effect on pair production in pulsed electric fields in scalar quantum electrodynamics (QED). Using the evolution…

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