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The photon spectrum emitted by a transrelativistic pair plasma is calculated in the presence of an ultrastrong magnetic field, and is shown to bear a remarkable resemblance to the rising hard X-ray spectra of quiescent magnetars. This…

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Nonlinear electrodynamics, QED included, is considered against the Lorentz-noninvariant external field background, treated as an anisotropic medium. Hamiltonian formalism is applied to electromagnetic excitations over the background, and…

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During the ultraintense laser interaction with solids (overdense plasmas), the competition between two possible quantum electrodynamics (QED) mechanisms responsible for $e^\pm$ pair production, i.e., linear and nonlinear Breit-Wheeler (BW)…

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We demonstrate that in the interaction of a high-power laser pulse with a structured solid-density plasma-channel, clear quantum signatures of stochastic radiation emission manifest, disclosing a novel avenue to studying the quantized…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-05-05 F. Mackenroth , Z. Gong , A. V. Arefiev

Attosecond spectroscopy comprises several techniques to probe matter through electrons and photons. One frontier of attosecond methods is to reveal complex phenomena arising from quantum-mechanical correlations in the matter system, in the…

The mechanism of laser-driven relativistic pair-jet production qualitatively changes as laser intensity exceeds $I\gtrsim5\times10^{22}$ W/cm$^{2}$ because of the appearance of laser-induced strong-field QED processes. Here, we show that by…

Converging cylindrical electromagnetic fields in vacuum have been shown (E. I. Zababakhin, M. N. Nechaev, {\it Soviet Physics JETP}, {\bf 6}, 345 (1958)) to exhibit amplitude "cumulation". It was found that the amplitude of self-similar…

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Previous attoclock experiments measuring the photoelectron momentum distribution (PMD) via strong-field ionization in an elliptically polarized laser field have shown anomalously large offset angles in the nonadiabatic regime with large…

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We propose a new approach to high-intensity laser-driven electron acceleration in a plasma. Here, we demonstrate that a plasma wave generated by a stimulated forward-scattering of an incident laser pulse can be in a longest acceleration…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-05-09 A. A. Rukhadze , S. P. Sadykova , T. G. Samkharadze , P. Gibbon

We present a new mechanism of attosecond extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) pulses generation from a relativistic laser-driven overdense plasma surfaces in the wavebreaking regime. Through particle-in-cell simulations and analysis, we demonstrate…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-08-18 Zi-Yu Chen , Mykyta Cherednychek , Alexander Pukhov

QED-effects are known to occur in a strong laser pulse interaction with a counter-propagating electron beam, among these effects being electron-positron pair creation. We discuss the range of laser pulse intensities of J > 5*10^22 W/cm2…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-11-11 Igor V. Sokolov , Natalia M. Naumova , John A. Nees , Gerard A. Mourou

Super-strongly magnetized plasmas play a crucial role in extreme environments of magnetar and laboratory laser experiments, demanding comprehensive understanding of how quantum electrodynamic (QED) effects influence plasma behaviour.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Mahmoud Alawashra , Jan Benáček , Martin Pohl , Mikhail Medvedev

The interaction of ultra-intense laser pulses with an underdense plasma is used in laser-plasma acceleration to create compact sources of ultrashort pulses of relativistic electrons and X-rays. The accelerating structure is a plasma wave,…

Quantum electrodynamics (QED), a cornerstone framework that describes light-matter interactions rooted in Abelian symmetries, renders the harnessing of synthetic non-Abelian gauge fields as a fundamental yet uncharted frontier. Here, we…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-03 Qinan Huang , Bengy T. T. Wong , Zehai Pang , Xudong Zhang , Zeling Chen , Yi Yang

Photons, electrons, and their interplay are at the heart of photonic devices and modern instruments for ultrafast science [1-10]. Nowadays, electron beams of the highest intensity and brightness are created by photoemission with short laser…

An electron irradiated by a linearly polarized relativistic intensity laser pulse in a cylindrical plasma channel can gain significant energy from the pulse. The laser electric and magnetic fields drive electron oscillations in a plane…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 A. V. Arefiev , V. N. Khudik , A. P. L. Robinson , G. Shvets , L. Willingale

We predict the existence of new nonlinear electromagnetic wave modes in pair plasmas. The plasma may be either non-magnetized or immersed in an external magnetic field. The existence of these modes depends on the interaction of an intense…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mattias Marklund , Padma K. Shukla , Gert Brodin , Lennart Stenflo

The radiative acceleration of particles and the electrostatic potential fields that arise in low density plasmas hit by radiation produced by a transient, compact source are investigated. We calculate the dynamical evolution and asymptotic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Zampieri , R. Turolla , L. Foschini , A. Treves

In our contribution we give a brief overview of two widely discussed quantum processes: electron-positron pairs production off a probe photon propagating through a polarized short-pulsed electromagnetic (e.m.) (e.g.\ laser) wave field or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-02 Alexander I. Titov , Burkhard Kampfer , Atsushi Hosaka , Hideaki Takabe

Plasmonic resonance of a metallic nanostructure results from coherent motion of its conduction electrons driven by incident light. At the resonance, the induced dipole in the nanostructure is proportional to the number of the conduction…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-04-20 Mingliang Zhang , Hongping Xiang , Xu Zhang , Gang Lu