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We study the possibility of observing Schwinger pair production enhanced by a thermal bath of photons. We consider the full range of temperatures and electric field intensities from pure Schwinger production to pure thermal production, and…

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Electron-positron pairs can be produced via the Schwinger mechanism in the presence of strong electric fields. In particular, the fields involved in $\alpha$ decay and nuclear fission are strong enough to produce them. The energy of the…

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We investigate the electron quantum path interference effects during high harmonic generation in atomic gas medium driven by ultrashort chirped laser pulses. To achieve that, we identify and vary the different experimentally relevant…

Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) is to date the most effective technique to increase the nuclear polarization up to a factor $100,000$ opening disruptive perspectives for medical applications. In DNP, the nuclear spins are driven to an -…

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We investigate the phenomenon of electron-positron pair production from vacuum in the presence of a uniform time-dependent electric field of arbitrary polarization. Taking into account the interaction with the external classical background…

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We investigate the self-phase modulation of intense femtosecond laser pulses propagating in an ionizing gas and its effects on collective properties of high-order harmonics generated in the medium. Plasmas produced in the medium are shown…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jung-Hoon Kim , Chang Hee Nam

We note the existence of a set of magnetic field values where a simple Hahn echo sequence refocuses the dynamics of the full dipolar interaction, for spin systems of electron donors in silicon. As the refocussing occurs for both arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-09 T. S. Monteiro

We describe experiments and associated quantum simulations involving the production of ultracold $^{87}$Rb$_{2}$ molecules with nanosecond pulses of frequency-chirped light. With appropriate chirp parameters, the formation is dominated by…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-06-07 J. L. Carini , S. Kallush , R. Kosloff , P. L. Gould

We examine the low-energy physics of graphene in the presence of a circularly polarized electric field in the terahertz regime. Specifically, we derive a general expression for the dynamical polarizability of graphene irradiated by an ac…

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Real-time quantum simulation of quantum field theory in (3+1)D requires large quantum computing resources. With a few-qubit quantum computer, we develop a novel algorithm and experimentally study the Schwinger effect, the electron-positron…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Bin Xu , Wei Xue

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

The influence of hypersonic waves excited in a single crystal is investigated on the process of electron-positron pair creation by high-energy photons. The coherent part of the corresponding differential cross-section is derived as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 A. R. Mkrtchyan , A. A. Saharian , L. Sh. Grigoryan , B. V. Khachatryan

Raman-assisted hopping can allow for the creation of density-dependent synthetic magnetism for cold neutral gases in optical lattices. We show that the density-dependent fields lead to a non-trivial interplay between density modulations and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-09-11 Sebastian Greschner , Daniel Huerga , Gaoyong Sun , Dario Poletti , Luis Santos

Electron-positron pair production is investigated in the multiphoton regime under polarized fields. Partial wave analysis can be applied to reveal the momentum spectral structure and identify the positions of valleys/peaks of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-13 Hong-Hao Fan , Li-Na Hu , Suo Tang , Zi-Liang Li , Bai-Song Xie

We calculate the rate of thermal Schwinger pair production at arbitrary coupling in weak external fields. Our calculations are valid independently of many properties of the charged particles produced, in particular their spin and whether…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-11 Oliver Gould , Arttu Rajantie

We study the probability distribution of the number of particle and antiparticle pairs produced via the Schwinger effect when a uniform but time-dependent electric field is applied to noninteracting scalars or spinors initially at a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-08 Yusuke Nishida

Pulse self-compression followed by the generation of resonant radiation is a well known phenomenon in non-linear optics. Resonant radiation is important as it allows for efficient and tunable wavelength conversion. We vary the chirp of the…

Optics · Physics 2016-01-05 Joanna McLenaghan , Friedrich Koenig

We investigate how optimal control theory can be used to improve Circular Dichroism (CD) signals for A--band of fenchone measured via the photoionization yield upon further excitation. These transitions are electric dipole forbidden to…

The usefulness of semiconductor lasers is often limited by the undesired frequency modulation, or chirp, a direct consequence of the intensity modulation and carrier dependence of the refractive index in the gain medium. In spin-lasers,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-22 Guilhem Boeris , Jeongsu Lee , Karel Vyborny , Igor Zutic

Vacuum polarization is numerically investigated for the interaction between a GeV electron beam and a counterpropagating ultraintense laser pulse in the quantum radiation dominated-regime (QRDR). We identify a signal of vacuum polarization…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-03 Jia-Ding Chen , Ya-Nan Dai , Kai-Hong Zhuang , Jing-Jing Jiang , Baifei Shen , Yue-Yue Chen