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Laser radiation incident on a ferromagnetic sample produces excited electrons and currents whose spin polarization must not be aligned with the magnetization -- an effect due to spin-orbit coupling that is ubiquitous in spin- and…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-03 Oliver Busch , Franziska Ziolkowski , Ingrid Mertig , Jürgen Henk

By taking the spin and polarization of the electrons, positrons and photons into account in the strong-field QED processes of nonlinear Compton emission and pair production, we find that the growth rate of QED cascades in ultra-intense…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-01 Daniel Seipt , Christopher P. Ridgers , Dario Del Sorbo , Alec G. R. Thomas

The acceleration of polarized electrons, positrons, protons and ions in strong laser and plasma fields is a very attractive option to obtain polarized beams in the multi-MeV range. Recently, there has been substantial progress in the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-11-04 Markus Büscher , Anna Hützen , Liangliang Ji , Andreas Lehrach

A method of generating spin polarized proton beams from a gas jet by using a multi-petawatt laser is put forward. With currently available techniques of producing pre-polarized monatomic gases from photodissociated hydrogen halide molecules…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Luling Jin , Meng Wen , Xiaomei Zhang , Anna Hützen , Johannes Thomas , Markus Büscher , Baifei Shen

The electron-positron pair production accompanying interaction of a circularly polarized laser pulse with a foil is studied for laser intensities higher than $10^{24}$W cm$^{-2}$. The laser energy penetrates into the foil due to the effect…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 I. Yu. Kostyukov , E. N. Nerush

Generation of highly-polarized high-energy brilliant $\gamma$-rays via laser-plasma interaction has been investigated in the quantum radiation-reaction regime. We employ a quantum-electrodynamics particle-in-cell code to describe…

Relativistic positron sources with high spin polarization have important applications in nuclear and particle physics and many frontier fields. However, it is challenging to produce dense polarized positrons. Here we present a simple and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Xing-Long Zhu , Wei-Yuan Liu , Tong-Pu Yu , Min Chen , Su-Ming Weng , Wei-Min Wang , Zheng-Ming Sheng

We put forward a novel method for producing ultrarelativistic high-density high-polarization positrons through a single-shot interaction of a strong laser with a tilted solid foil. In our method, the driving laser ionizes the target, and…

Resonant optical excitation of lowest-energy excitonic transitions in self-assembled quantum dots lead to nuclear spin polarization that is qualitatively different from the well known optical orientation phenomena. By carrying out a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-03 A. Högele , M. Kroner , C. Latta , M. Claassen , I. Carusotto , C. Bulutay , A. Imamoglu

A novel deflection effect of an intense laser beam with spin angular momentum is revealed theoretically by an analytical modeling using radiation pressure and momentum balance of laser plasma interaction in the relativistic regime, as a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-12-16 Y. H. Tang , Z. Gong , J. Q. Yu , Y. R. Shou , X. Q. Yan

The spin polarization of photoelectrons induced by an intense linearly polarized laser field is investigated using numerical solutions of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation in companion with our analytic treatment via the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Pei-Lun He , Zhao-Han Zhang , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

We investigate spontaneous radiative processes in a driven polar two-level system whose interaction with the laser field is dominated by broken inversion symmetry rather than by the usual transition dipole coupling. Using a polaron…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Piotr Gładysz , Karolina Słowik , Francesco V. Pepe

Nonlinear Compton scattering driven by ultraintense lasers presents a promising avenue for enhancing the photon energy, brilliance, and setup compactness of $\gamma$-ray sources. However, a significant challenge lies in achieving a high…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 Xian-Zhang Wu , Yan-Fei Li , Yu-Tong Li

A derivation of fully polarization-resolved probabilities is provided for high-energy photon emission and electron-positron pair production in ultrastrong laser fields. The probabilities resolved in both electron spin and photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-13 Yue-Yue Chen , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel , Rashid Shaisultanov

The effect of an intense external linear polarized radiation field on the angular distributions and polarization states of the photons emitted during the radiative recombination is investigated. It is predicted, on symmetry grounds, and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Saverio Bivona , Giovanni Bonanno , Riccardo Burlon , Claudio Leone

To probe the nonlinear effects of photon-photon interaction in the quantum electrodynamics, we study the generation of circular polarized photons by the collision of two linearly polarized laser beams. In the framework of the…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-09 Rohoollah Mohammadi , Iman Motie , She-Sheng Xue

A novel scheme is proposed to generate uniform relativistic electron layers for coherent Thomson backscattering. A few-cycle laser pulse is used to produce the electron layer from an ultra-thin solid foil. The key element of the new scheme…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Hui-Chun Wu , Juergen Meyer-ter-Vehn , Juan C. Fernandez , B. Manuel Hegelich

We investigate the charged scalar lepton production processes $\gamma\gamma\to{\widetilde{\ell}}^{+}{\widetilde{\ell}}^{-}$ at high energy $\gamma\gamma$ colliders in the framework of the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM). Here…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 Tadashi Kon

The phenomenon of polarization of nuclei in the process of stimulated recombination of atoms in the field of circularly polarized laser radiation is considered. This effect is considered for the case of the proton-electron beams used in the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-07-11 M. A. Kutlan

Interference of spin-up and spin-down eigenstates depicts spin rotation of electrons, which is a fundamental concept of quantum mechanics and accepts technological challenges for the electrical spin manipulation. Here, we visualize this…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-28 Kenta Kuroda , Koichiro Yaji , M. Nakayama , A. Harasawa , Y. Ishida , S. Watanabe , C. -T. Chen , T. Kondo , F. Komori , S. Shin