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The recent developments of high intensity ultra-short laser pulses have raised the hopes of observing Schwinger vacuum pair production which is one of the important non-perturbative phenomena in Quantum electrodynamics (QED). The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Cesim K. Dumlu

Electron-positron pair production, in combined Sauter potential wells and an oscillating one is imposed on a static Sauter potential, is investigated by using the computational quantum field theory. We find that the gain number (the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-04 Binbing Wu , Li Wang , B. S. Xie

We present an indepth investigation of certain aspects of the two level on resonant multiphoton approximation to pair production from vacuum in the presence of strong electromagnetic fields. Numerical computations strongly suggest that a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 I. Tsohantjis , S. Moustaizis , I. Ploumistakis

Electron-positron pair production by the superposition of two laser pulses with different frequencies and amplitudes is analyzed as a particular realization of the assisted dynamic Schwinger effect. It is demonstrated that, within a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 A. D. Panferov , S. A. Smolyansky , A. Otto , B. Kaempfer , D. Blaschke , L. Juchnowski

Although existing technology cannot yet directly produce fields at the Schwinger level, experimental facilities can already explore strong-field QED phenomena by taking advantage of the Lorentz boost of energetic electron beams. Recent…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Kenan Qu , Sebastian Meuren , Nathaniel J. Fisch

We study electron-positron pair production in polar caps of energetic pulsars to determine the maximum multiplicity of pair plasma a pulsar can produce under the most favorable conditions. This paper complements and updates our study of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-23 A. N. Timokhin , A. K. Harding

We study the effect of the chirped laser pulse on the transmission and associated ion acceleration by the sub-wavelength target. In the chirped laser pulses, the pulse frequency has a temporal variation about its fundamental frequency,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-11-06 Shivani Choudhary , Amol R. Holkundkar

Production of particle-antiparticle pairs by a high-energy probe photon propagating through a high-intensity laser field is considered in the nonperturbative interaction regime. The laser field consists of a strong low-frequency and a weak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Martin J. A. Jansen , Carsten Müller

Researches on the electron-positron pair production in the presence of the intense laser field are reviewed, motivated by the theoretical importance of the nonperturbative QED problem and the worldwide development of the strong laser…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Huayu Hu

The possibility to observe vacuum electron-positron pair creation due to a powerful optical laser pulse is discussed. We employ a quantum kinetic formulation of the problem with a source term describing the vacuum pair production in a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. B. Blaschke , A. V. Prozorkevich , S. A. Smolyansky , A. V. Tarakanov

Ultra strong electromagnetic fields can lead to spontaneous creation of single or multiple electron-positron pairs. A quantum field theoretical treatment of the pair creation process combined with numerical methods provides a description of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-26 Anton Wöllert , Heiko Bauke , Christoph H. Keitel

The influence of potential well width on electron-positron pair production has been examined through theoretical and numerical approaches by employing the computational quantum field theory. Quantum interference effects in pair production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-02 Adiljan Sawut , Ying-Jun Li , Miao Jiang , Bai-Song Xie

Using a quantum kinetic equation coupled to Maxwell's equation we study the possibility that focused beams at proposed X-ray free electron laser facilities can generate electric field strengths large enough to cause spontaneous…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Alkofer , M. B. Hecht , C. D. Roberts , S. M. Schmidt , D. V. Vinnik

We study nonperturbative multiphoton electron-positron pair creation in ultrastrong electromagnetic fields formed by two counterpropagating pulses with elliptic polarization. Our numerical approach allows us to take into account the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Anton Wöllert , Heiko Bauke , Christoph H. Keitel

The excitation of plasma wakefields driven by chirped laser pulses is investigated using a reduced relativistic fluid Poisson model supported by fully relativistic particle in cell (PIC) simulations. The study considers exponential, linear,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Ajit Kumar Kushwaha , Dinkar Mishra , Shivani Aggarwal , Saumya Singh , Bhupesh Kumar

High-energy-density electron-positron pair plasma production and its dynamics in a thin foil illuminated by two counter-propagating laser pulses are investigated through multi-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. We compare the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 W. Y. Liu , W. Luo , T. Yuan , J. Y. Yu , M. Chen , Z. M. Sheng

Electron-positron pair creation in a standing wave is explored using a parameter-free quantum kinetic equation. Field strengths and frequencies corresponding to modern optical lasers induce a material polarisation of the QED vacuum, which…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-03-04 D. B. Blaschke , A. V. Prozorkevich , C. D. Roberts , S. M. Schmidt , S. A. Smolyansky

Electron-positron pair production for inhomogeneous electric and magnetic fields oscillating in space and time is investigated. By employing accurate numerical methods (Furry-picture quantization and quantum kinetic theory), final particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-23 Ivan A. Aleksandrov , Christian Kohlfürst

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

Recently various laser-chirping schemes have been investigated with the goal of reducing or eliminating ponderomotive line broadening in Compton or Thomson scattering occurring at high laser intensities. As a next level of detail in the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Balša Terzić , Cody Reeves , Geoffrey A. Krafft