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The production of a highly-polarized positron beam via nonlinear Breit-Wheeler processes during the interaction of an ultraintense circularly polarized laser pulse with a longitudinally spin-polarized ultrarelativistic electron beam is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Yan-Fei Li , Yue-Yue Chen , Wei-Min Wang , Hua-Si Hu

Semiconductor spin lasers are distinguished from their conventional counterparts by the presence of spin-polarized carriers. The transfer of angular momentum of the spin-polarized carriers to photons provides important opportunities for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Gaofeng Xu , David Cao , Velimir Labinac , Igor Žutić

We consider electron-atom scattering in a circularly polarized laser field at sufficiently high electron energies, permitting to describe the scattering process by the first order Born approximation. Assuming the radiation field has…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-03-07 Aurelia Cionga , Fritz Ehlotzky , Gabriela Zloh

Three dimensional supersymmetric field theories have large moduli spaces of circular Wilson loops preserving a fixed set of supercharges. We simplify previous constructions of such Wilson loops and amend and clarify their classification.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-16 Nadav Drukker

A quantum dot spin LED provides a test of carrier spin injection into a qubit, as well as a means of analyzing carrier spin injection in general and local spin polarization. The polarization of the observed light is, however, significantly…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 C. E. Pryor , M. E. Flatté

The presence of strong electromagnetic fields adds huge complexity to QED Feynman diagrams, such that new methods are required to calculate higher-loop and higher-multiplicity scattering amplitudes. Here we use the worldline formalism to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-27 Patrick Copinger , James P. Edwards , Anton Ilderton , Karthik Rajeev

Polymerized quantum spin chains (i.e. spin chains with a periodic modulation of the coupling constants) exhibit plateaux in their magnetization curves when subjected to homogeneous external magnetic fields. We argue that the strong-coupling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Honecker

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 paper presents a systematic method for transforming states of polarization (SoPs) into any arbitrary target SoPs, whether linear or elliptical, by determining the precise waveplate rotation angles required for the transformation.…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-28 Joong-Seon Choe , Chun Ju Youn

A general form of the polarization matrix valid for any type of electromagnetic radiation (plane waves, multipole radiation etc.) is defined in terms of a certain bilinear form in the field-strength tensor. The quantum counterpart is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Muhammet Ali Can , Alexander S. Shumovsky

In this study, we utilize intense laser pulses and advanced quantum mechanical frameworks to investigate the behavior of high-velocity electrons within magnetized plasma environments. The focus of our research is placed within the context…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 B. S. Sharma , Garima Yadav , N. K. Jaiman , D. N. Gupta

Recent observations of gravitational waves from binary mergers of black holes or neutron stars and the rapid development of ultra-intense lasers lead strong field physics to a frontier of new physics in the 21st century. Strong gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-03 Sang Pyo Kim

The formation of $e^\pm$ plasmas within pulsar magnetospheres through quantum electrodynamics (QED) cascades in vacuum gaps is widely acknowledged. This paper aims to investigate the effect of photon polarization during the QED cascade…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-30 Huai-Hang Song , Matteo Tamburini

A calculation of the QED vacuum polarization potential in the Coulomb field of a pointlike nucleus was presented in an earlier publication by the author and his collaborators. Corrections up to order $\alpha^2 (Z\alpha)^7$ were evaluated,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Sergey Volkov

In two - loop effective Lagrangian, the low - temperature expansion of the $QED_{3+1}$ with a constant magnetic field and a finite chemical potential is performed. We then calculate the total fermion density, some components of polarization…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Pradip K Sahu

Left and right circularly polarized transverse electromagnetic waves propagate at slightly different speeds in a magnetic material leading to a polarization rotation by an amount proportional to the projection of the magnetic field along…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-30 Koray Koksal , Fatma Tambag , Jamal Berakdar , Mohamed Babiker

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 present a comprehensive analysis of longitudinal particle drifting in a standing circularly polarized wave at extreme intensities when quantum radiation reaction (RR) effects should be accounted for. To get an insight into the physics of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 A. V. Bashinov , P. Kumar , A. V. Kim

Ultrarelativistic electron-positron plasmas can be produced in high-intensity laser fields and play a role in various astrophysical situations. Their properties can be calculated using QED at finite temperature. Here we will use…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Markus H. Thoma

Nonlinear Bethe-Heitler process in a bichromatic laser field is investigated using strong-field QED formalism. Symmetry properties of angular distributions of created $e^-e^+$ pairs are analyzed. These properties are showed to be governed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 K. Krajewska , J. Z. Kaminski