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State-of-the-art attosecond metrology deals with the detection and characterization of photon pulses with typical energies up to the hundreds of eV and time resolution of several tens of attoseconds. Such short pulses are used for example…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-04 Andreas Ipp , Jörg Evers , Christoph H. Keitel , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan

We consider stimulated pair production employing strong-field QED in a high-intensity laser background. In an infinite plane wave, we show that light-cone quasi-momentum can only be transferred to the created pair as a multiple of the laser…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-08-23 Thomas Heinzl , Anton Ilderton , Mattias Marklund

The nature of matter creation is one of the most basic processes in the universe. According to the quantum electrodynamics theory, matters can be created from pure light through the Breit Wheeler (BW) process. The multi-photon BW process…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Jinqing Yu , Haiyang Lu , T. Takahashi , Ronghao Hu , Zheng Gong , Wenjun Ma , Yongsheng Huang , Xueqing Yan

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…

The generation of ultrashort light pulses is essential for the advancement of attosecond science. Here, we show that attosecond pulses approaching the Fourier limit can be generated through optimized optical driving of tunneling particles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Shohei Imai , Atsushi Ono

The electric field accelerating electrons in the Timokhin-Arons polar-cap model as applied to millisecond pulsars is so high that the electron Lorentz factors are limited either by radiation reaction or by the Breit-Wheeler process. In the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-07 P B Jones

In the exciton-polariton system, a linear dispersive photon field is coupled to a nonlinear exciton field. Short-time analysis of the lossless system shows that, when the photon field is excited, the time required for that field to exhibit…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-25 Cristi D. Guevara , Stephen P. Shipman

The process of electron-positron pair creation through multi-photon absorption in a space-time dependent electric field is analyzed using computational quantum field theory. Our findings reveal two distinct pair creation channels: the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-27 C. K. Li , X. X. Zhou , Q. Chen , B. An , Y. J. Li , N. S. Lin , Y. Wan

Near-future experiments intend to detect strong-field Breit-Wheeler pair creation from the collision between bremsstrahlung bursts containing GeV-$\gamma$ quanta and high-intensity laser pulses. In this theoretical study, we investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-20 A. Eckey , A. Golub , F. C. Salgado , S. Villalba-Chávez , A. B. Voitkiv , M. Zepf , C. Müller

Ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions are expected to produce the strongest electromagnetic fields in the known Universe. These highly-Lorentz contracted fields can manifest themselves as linearly polarized quasi-real photons that can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-17 James Daniel Brandenburg , Wangmei Zha , Zhangbu Xu

We consider $\Lambda$-type model of the Bose-Einstein condensate of sodium atoms interacting with the light. Coefficients of the Kerr-nonlinearity in the condensate can achieve large and negative values providing the possibility for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 S. M. Arakelyan , A. V. Prokhorov , I. Vadeiko

A method is proposed to generate trains of few-cycle x-ray pulses from a Free-Electron Laser (FEL) amplifier via a compact 'afterburner' extension consisting of several few-period undulator sections separated by electron chicane delays.…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 D. J. Dunning , B. W. J. McNeil , N. R. Thompson

Laser-driven brilliant controllable polarized $\gamma$-photon sources open the way for designing compact $\gamma\gamma$ collider, which enable the large yield of linear Breit-Wheeler (LBW) pairs in a single shot and thus provide an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-30 Qian Zhao , Liang Tang , Feng Wan , Bo-Chao Liu , Ruo-Yu Liu , Rui-Zhi Yang , Jin-Qing Yu , Xue-Guang Ren , Zhong-Feng Xu , Yong-Tao Zhao , Yong-Sheng Huang , Jian-Xing Li

Electromagnetically induced transparency in an optically thick, cold medium creates a unique system where pulse-propagation velocities may be orders of magnitude less than $c$ and optical nonlinearities become exceedingly large. As a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Danielle A. Braje , Vlatko Balic , G. Y. Yin , S. E. Harris

We studied the high-harmonic generation by the interaction of sub-cycle laser pulses with the He atom. The sub-cycle pulses are modeled using the complex source vector beam model, which is an exact solution to Maxwell's equations and…

In this paper we derive and discuss the completely spin- and photon-polarisation dependent probability rates for nonlinear Compton scattering and nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production. The locally constant field approximation, which is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-11-12 D. Seipt , B. King

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 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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-07-24 Sang Pyo Kim , Hyung Won Lee , Remo Ruffini

This work covers electron positron pair production in spatially homogeneous electric (and magnetic) fields. Different field configurations are looked at in order to study various phenomena including multiphoton pair production,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-01-19 Alexander Blinne

Electron-positron pair production in an oscillating Sauter potential is investigated in the framework of the computational quantum field theory. It is found that for a Sauter potential well with oscillating width and depth simultaneously,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Li Wang , Binbing Wu , Baisong Xie