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The classical nonlinear laser-plasma interaction theory is corrected. Given the effects of vacuum polarization (induced by extreme laser) as nonlinear media response, one-dimensional wave equations of a monochromatic laser field are derived…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Wenbo Chen , Zhigang Bu , Hehe Li , Yuee Luo , Peiyong Ji

We present a formalism that accounts for the evolution of quantum states of travelling light pulses incident on and emanating from a local quantum scatterer such as an atom or a cavity. We assume non-dispersive asymptotic propagation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Alexander Holm Kiilerich , Klaus Mølmer

Nonlinear evolutions of an ultra-intense, short laser pulse due to the wake excitation inside the plasma are studied by means of detailed Particle-In-Cell (PIC) simulations and comprehensive analyses. Pulse lengths both longer and shorter…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-04-26 Jam Yazdanpanah , Elnaz Yazdani , Elnaz Khalilzadeh , Amir Chakhmachi

The question of how nonlinear interactions redistribute the energy of fluctuations across available degrees of freedom is of fundamental importance in the study of turbulence and transport in magnetized weakly collisional plasmas, ranging…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 G. G. Plunk , T. Tatsuno

Laser pulses traveling through a plasma can feature group velocities significantly differing from the speed of light in vacuum. This modifies the well-known Volkov states of an electron inside a strong laser-field from the vacuum case and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 F. Mackenroth , N. Kumar , N. Neitz , C. H. Keitel

The heating of ions via lower hybrid waves has been observed in several astrophysical as well as laboratory plasmas. We have conducted Particle-In-Cell simulations to demonstrate absorption of the incident laser pulse at a chosen localized…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Ayushi Vashistha , Devshree Mandal , Srimanta Maity , Amita Das

Ultra-strong laser pulses can be so intense that an electron in the focused beam loses significant energy due to gamma-photon emission while its motion deviates via the radiation back-reaction. Numerical methods and tools designed to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-09-11 Igor V. Sokolov , Natalia M. Naumova , John A. Nees

We investigate the propagation of light through a plasma on a background Kerr spacetime via a Hamiltonian formulation. The behaviour of light when propagating through a vacuum and through a plasma is not the same; the convolution of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-06 Tom Kimpson , Kinwah Wu , Silvia Zane

One dimensional Particle-in-cell simulations using OSIRIS-4.0 has been conducted to study the interaction of a laser electromagnetic pulse with an overdense magnetized plasma target. The external magnetic field has been chosen to be…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-03-24 Laxman Prasad Goswami , Rohit Juneja , Dhalia Trishul , Srimanta Maity , Sathi Das , Amita Das

Self-focusing emerges as a nonlinear optical phenomenon resulting from an intense laser field and plasma interaction. This study investigates the self-focusing behavior of Gaussian laser beams within magnetized plasma environments utilizing…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 A. A. Molavi Choobini , S. S. Ghaffari-Oskooei

The investigation of spin and polarization effects in ultra-high intensity laser-plasma and laser-beam interactions has become an emergent topic in high-field science recently. In this paper we derive a relativistic kinetic description of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Daniel Seipt , Alec G. R. Thomas

We investigate the interplay between gravity and the quantum coherence present in the state of a pulse of light propagating in curved spacetime. We first introduce an operational way to distinguish between the overall shift in the pulse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 David Edward Bruschi , Symeon Chatzinotas , Frank K. Wilhelm , Andreas W. Schell

In the full-orbit particle simulations of energetic particle transport in plasmas, the plasma turbulence is typically described as a homogeneous superposition of linear Fourier modes. The turbulence evolution is, however, typically a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-03 Timo Laitinen , Silvia Dalla , James Kelly

We consider the theoretical description of intense laser pulses propagating through gases. Starting from a first-principles description of both the electromagnetic field and the electron motion within the gas atoms, we derive a hierarchy of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Simon Berman , Cristel Chandre , Jonathan Dubois , François Mauger , Maxime Perin , Turgay Uzer

The quantum electrodynamical (QED) short wavelength correction on plasma wave propagation for a non-relativistic quantum plasma is investigated. A general dispersion relation for a thermal multi-component quantum plasma is derived. It is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-03-19 J. Lundin , J. Zamanian , M. Marklund , G. Brodin

In this work, a many body relativistic quantum field theory for the collective modes of spinor quantum electrodynamic theory (QED) plasmas is developed. We introduce the thermo field dynamics into the QED plasma study. The nontrivial…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-12-18 Shan Wu , Ji-ying Zhang

The propagation of an electromagnetic pulse in a plasma is studied for pulse durations that are comparable to the plasma period. When the carrier frequency of the incident pulse is much higher than the plasma frequency, the pulse propagates…

Optics · Physics 2009-10-30 Borge Nodland , C. J. McKinstrie

Optical solitons classically are stationary solutions of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. We perform a quantum field theoretic treatment by quantising a linearised fluctuation field around the classical soliton solution which can be…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-07 Sang-Shin Baak , Friedrich Koenig

Radiation reaction effects in the interaction of an electron and a strong laser field are investigated in the realm of quantum electrodynamics. We identify quantum radiation reaction with the multiple photon recoils experienced by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-03 A. Di Piazza , K. Z. Hatsagortsyan , C. H. Keitel

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