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I discuss several roles of the strong electromagnetic fields created by relativistic heavy-ion collisions. These phenomena call for theoretical and experimental developments to understand dynamics of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) as well as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-09 Koichi Hattori

Modern ultra-intense laser facilities can generate electromagnetic fields strong enough to accelerate particles to near-light speeds over micron-scale distances and also approach the QED critical field, resulting in highly nonlinear and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Q. Qian , D. Seipt , M. Vranic , T. Grismayer , C. P. Ridgers , A. G. R. Thomas

Electromagnetic cascades attract a lot of attention as an important QED effect that will reveal itself in various electromagnetic field configurations at ultrahigh intensities. We study cascade dynamics in rotating electric field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 E. N. Nerush , V. F. Bashmakov , I. Yu. Kostyukov

Understanding the interplay of strong-field QED and collective plasma effects is important for explaining extreme astrophysical environments like magnetars. It has been shown that QED pair plasmas is possible to be produced and observed by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Kenan Qu , Sebastian Meuren , Nathaniel J. Fisch

The onset and evolution of magnetic fields in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas is determined by several mechanisms, including instabilities, dynamo effects and ultra-high energy particle flows through gas, plasma and interstellar-media.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. Flacco , J. Vieira , A. Lifschitz , F. Sylla , S. Kahaly , M. Veltcheva , L. O. Silva , V. Malka

Strong-field quantum electrodynamics (SF-QED) plays a crucial role in ultraintense laser matter interactions, and demands sophisticated techniques to understand the related physics with new degrees of freedom, including spin angular…

One of the main applications in plasma physics concerns the energy production through thermo-nuclear fusion. The controlled fusion is achieved by magnetic confinement i.e., the plasma is confined into a toroidal domain (tokamak) under the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Mihai Bostan , Irene M. Gamba

Super-strongly magnetized plasmas play a crucial role in extreme environments of magnetar and laboratory laser experiments, demanding comprehensive understanding of how quantum electrodynamic (QED) effects influence plasma behaviour.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Mahmoud Alawashra , Jan Benáček , Martin Pohl , Mikhail Medvedev

Intense electromagnetic fields are created in the quark-gluon plasma by the external ultra-relativistic valence charges. The time-evolution and the strength of this field are strongly affected by the electrical conductivity of the plasma.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-04-25 Evan Stewart , Kirill Tuchin

With the aid of large-scale three-dimensional QED-PIC simulations, we describe a realistic experimental configuration to measure collective effects that couple strong field quantum electrodynamics to plasma kinetics. For two counter…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Peng Zhang , A. G. R. Thomas , C. P. Ridgers

Exploring quantum electrodynamics in the most extreme conditions, where electron-positron pairs can emerge in the presence of a strong background field, is now becoming possible in Compton collisions between ultraintense lasers and…

This document sets out the intention of the strong-field QED community to carry out, both experimentally and numerically, high-statistics parametric studies of quantum electrodynamics in the non-perturbative regime, at fields approaching…

A theory for abelian plasma permeated by photons has been developed considering QED (quantum electrodynamics) generalized in Podolsky electrodynamics framework for consideration of higher order terms in electromagnetic theory. The theory…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 Prabhat Singh , Punit Kumar

A combination of observation, theory, modeling, and laboratory plasma experiments provides a multifaceted approach to develop a much greater understanding of how magnetic fields arise in galactic settings and how these magnetic fields…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-02-23 A. Lazarian , S. Boldyrev , C. Forest , J. Sarff , P. Terry

This review has explored the fundamental principles of thermal field theory in the context of a background magnetic field, highlighting its theoretical framework and some of its applications to the thermo-magnetic QCD plasma generated in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-04 Munshi G. Mustafa , Aritra Bandyopadhyay , Chowdhury Aminul Islam

The paper examines the prospects of using laser plasmas for studying novel regimes of the magnetic field line reconnection and charged particle acceleration. Basic features of plasma dynamics in the three-dimensional configurations relevant…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 S. V. Bulanov

The quantum field theory in the presence of classical background electromagnetic fields is reviewed. We give a pedagogical introduction to the Feynman-Furry method of describing non-perturbative interactions with very strong electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 Alexander V. Kurilin

Strong field physics close to or above the Schwinger limit are typically studied with vacuum as initial condition, or by considering test particle dynamics. However, with a plasma present initially, quantum relativistic mechanisms such as…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Gert Brodin , Haidar Al-Naseri , Jens Zamanian , Greger Torgrimsson , Bengt Eliasson

Laser-plasma physics has developed rapidly over the past few decades as high-power lasers have become both increasingly powerful and more widely available. Early experimental and numerical research in this field was restricted to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Andreas Döpp , Christoph Eberle , Sunny Howard , Faran Irshad , Jinpu Lin , Matthew Streeter

Quantum plasmas is a rapidly expanding field of research, with applications ranging from nanoelectronics, nanoscale devices and ultracold plasmas, to inertial confinement fusion and astrophysics. Here we give a short systematic overview of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 M. Marklund , G. Brodin