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The residual current density in monolayer graphene driven by an intense few-cycle chirped laser pulse is investigated via numerical solution of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation. It is found that the residual current is sensitive to…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-30 Erheng Wu , Qiang Zhan , Zhanshan Wang , Chaojin Zhang , Chengpu Liu

Electron-positron pair production is investigated in spatial inhomogeneous electric fields with high or/and low central frequency as well as sinusoidal phase modulation. It is found that the momentum spectrum (the reduced particle number)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-22 Li-Na Hu , Orkash Amat , Lie-Juan Li , Melike Mohamedsedik , B. S. Xie

Via a non-perturbative method we study the population dynamics and photoelectron spectra of Cs atoms subject to intense chirped laser pulses, with gaussian beams. We include above threshold ionization spectral peaks. The frequency of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Marani , E. J. Robinson

We study the pair production, string breaking, and hadronization of a receding electron-positron pair using the bosonized version of the massive Schwinger model in quantum electrodynamics in 1+1 space-time dimensions. Specifically, we study…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-02 Laura Batini , Lara Kuhn , Jürgen Berges , Stefan Floerchinger

The Schwinger mechanism of electron-positron pair production in the presence of strong external electric fields is analyzed numerically for the case of one- and two-dimensional field configurations where the external field depends both on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-28 I. A. Aleksandrov , G. Plunien , V. M. Shabaev

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 investigate electron-positron pair production from the vacuum in presence of a strong oscillating electric field with a multi-pulse structure and variable inter-pulse delay. The pair production probabilities are computed by numerically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-09 Abhinav Jangir

We investigate the electron-positron pair production process in an oscillating field with modulated amplitude in quantum kinetic formalism. By comparing the number density in field with and without modulation, we find that the pair…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 Ibrahim Sitiwaldi , Bai-Song Xie

The description of the electron wavefunctions in atoms is generalized to the fractional Fourier series. This method introduces a continuous and infinite number of chirp basis sets with linear variation of the frequency to expand the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-05-23 Edmanuel Torres , Rafael Torres

We explore Schwinger pair production in rotating time-dependent electric fields using the real-time DHW formalism. We determine the time evolution of the Wigner function as well as asymptotic particle distributions neglecting back-reactions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-23 Alexander Blinne , Holger Gies

The Sauter-Schwinger effect predicts the creation of electron-positron pairs out of the quantum vacuum by a strong and slowly varying electric field. This effect can be dynamically assisted by an additional weaker time-dependent field,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-28 Greger Torgrimsson , Christian Schneider , Johannes Oertel , Ralf Schützhold

We present a study of the effects of dispersion on the properties of photon pairs generated by type-II, collinear spontaneous parametric downconversion. Specifically, we take into consideration the effects of a chirped pump, as well as of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-27 Yasser Jeronimo-Moreno , Alfred B. U'Ren

Production of electron-positron pairs in the superposition of oscillating electric-field pulses with largely different frequencies is studied, focussing on the impact of relative phases between the pulses. Various field configurations are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 J. Braß , D. M. Müller , S. Villalba-Chávez , K. Krajewska , C. Müller

Pair-creation of charged particles in a strong gauge-field background - the renowned Schwinger effect - can strongly alter the efficiency of gauge-field production during axion inflation. It is therefore crucial to have a clear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-14 Richard von Eckardstein , Kai Schmitz , Oleksandr Sobol

In a vicinity of the Fermi surface, graphene layers with bandgaps allow for closely simulating the vacuum of quantum electrodynamics and, thus, its yet unverified strong-field phenomenology with accessible field strengths. This striking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 Ibrahim Akal , Reinhold Egger , Carsten Müller , Selym Villalba-Chávez

The leading-particle effect and the factorization property of the scattering amplitude in the impact parameter space are used to study semiclassical production of pions in the central region. The mechanism is related to the isospin-uniform…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-15 M. Martinis , V. Mikuta-Martinis , J. Črnugelj

Using one-dimensional semiconductor Bloch equations, we investigate the multiband dynamics of electrons in a cutoff extension scheme employing an infrared pulse with additional UV injection. An extended three-step model is firstly validated…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-01 Yue Lang , Zhaoyang Peng , Zengxiu Zhao

Exact analytical solutions are presented for the time evolution of the density of pairs produced in the QED vacuum by a uniform electric field that is adiabatically switched on starting at minus infinity. Pair production is described by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-09-24 Iwo Bialynicki-Birula , Łukasz Rudnicki , Albert Wienczek

The cross section for coherent pair production by linearly polarised photons in the 20-170 GeV energy range was measured for photon aligned incidence on ultra-high quality diamond and germanium crystals. The theoretical description of…

Dynamic nuclear polarisation (DNP) refers to a class of techniques used to increase the signal in nuclear magnetic resonance measurements by transferring spin polarisation from ensembles of highly polarised electrons to target nuclear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-24 L. T. Hall , D. A. Broadway , A. Stacey , D. A. Simpson , J-P. Tetienne , L. C. L. Hollenberg