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The Hamiltonian conservative system of two interacting particles has been considered both in classical and quantum description. The quantum model has been realized using a symmetrized two-particle basis reordered in the unperturbed energy.…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-30 Fausto Borgonovi , Italo Guarneri , Felix Izrailev

We investigate the nonlinear interaction between a relativistically strong laser beam and a plasma in the quantum regime. The collective behavior of the electrons is modeled by a Klein-Gordon equation, which is nonlinearly coupled with the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 Bengt Eliasson , Padma K. Shukla

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

The derivation of the helicon dispersion relation for a uniform plasma with stationary ions subject to a constant background magnetic field is reexamined in terms of the potential formulation of electrodynamics. Under the same conditions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-08-21 Robert W. Johnson

We derive model equations for optical pulse propagation in a medium described by a two-level Hamiltonian, without the use of the slowly varying envelope approximation. Assuming that the resonance frequency of the two-level atoms is either…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Herve Leblond , Francois Sanchez

We present a new analytical solution for the equation of motion of relativistic electrons in the focus of a high-intensity laser pulse. We approximate the electron's transverse dynamics in the averaged field of a long laser pulse focused to…

Ion-acoustic modes propagating in unmagnetized dusty plasmas are studied by applying a generic collisionless fluid model. An Eulerian-to-Lagrangean variable transformation leads to a new system of evolution equations, which may be combined…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ioannis Kourakis , Padma Kant Shukla

A laser model is formulated in terms of quantum harmonic oscillators. Emitters in the low lasing states are usual harmonic oscillators, and emitters in the upper states are inverted harmonic oscillators. Diffusion coefficients, consistent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Igor E. Protsenko , Alexander V. Uskov

The propagation of plasma waves in a new non-linear, logarithmic electrodynamics model is performed. A cold, uniform, collisionless fluid plasma model is applied. Electrostatic waves in magnetized plasma are shown to correspond to modified…

A new scaling law model for propagation of optical beams through atmospheric turbulence is presented and compared to a common scalar stochastic waveoptics technique. This methodology tracks the evolution of the important beam wavefront and…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-05 Sophia Potoczak Bragdon , Daniel Cargill , Jacob Grosek

This article discusses the existence of solitary electromagnetic waves trapped in a self-generated Langmuir wave and embedded in an infinitely long circularly polarized electromagnetic wave propagating through a plasma. From the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-04-18 G. Sánchez-Arriaga , E. Siminos , E. Lefebvre

This work is dedicated to the study of radiation reaction signatures in the framework of classical and quantum electrodynamics. Since there has been no distinct experimental validation of radiation reaction and its underlying equations so…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Norman Neitz , Naveen Kumar , Felix Mackenroth , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel , Antonino Di Piazza

Double electron ionisation process occurs when an intense laser pulse interacts with atoms or molecules. Exact {\it ab initio} numerical simulation of such a situation is extremely computer resources demanding, thus often one is forced to…

For many-particle systems defined on lattices we investigate the global structure of effective Hamiltonians and observables obtained by means of a suitable basis transformation. We study transformations which lead to effective Hamiltonians…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Christian Knetter , Kai P. Schmidt , Goetz S. Uhrig

We have recently presented an extension of the standard variational calculus to include the presence of deformed derivatives in the Lagrangian of a system of particles and in the Lagrangian density of field-theoretic models. Classical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-06-30 J. Weberszpil , J. A. Helayël-Neto

A detailed analysis of the photon emission spectra of an electron scattered by a laser pulse containing only very few cycles of the carrying electromagnetic field is presented. The analysis is performed in the framework of strong-field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-21 F. Mackenroth , A. Di Piazza

As new laser facilities are developed with intensities on the scale of 10^22 - 10^24 W cm^-2 , it becomes ever more important to understand the effect of strong field quantum electrodynamics processes, such as quantum radiation reaction,…

Using a master-equation approach for the description of coherent and incoherent dynamics in `artificial atoms and molecules', we present a theoretical analysis of situations where intense laser fields lead to pronounced renormalizations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ulrich Hohenester , Filippo Troiani , Elisa Molinari

We briefly report on some results regarding the impact of very short and intense laser pulses on a cold, low-density plasma initially at rest, and the consequent acceleration of plasma electrons to relativistic energies. Locally and for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-05 Gaetano Fiore

The dynamics of relativistic electrons interacting with a laser pulse in a plasma wave has been investigated theoretically and numerically based on the classical Landau-Lifshitz equation. There exists a convergent trajectory of electrons…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-08-19 Bin Liu , Bifeng Lei , Matt Zepf , Xueqing Yan