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The interaction of an unpolarized electron beam with a counterpropagating ultraintense linearly polarized laser pulse is investigated in the quantum radiation-dominated regime. We employ a semiclassical Monte Carlo method to describe…

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)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-04-09 Huai-Hang Song , Wei-Min Wang , Min Chen , Zheng-Ming Sheng

The $e^+e^-$ pair production by a probe photon traversing a linearly polarized laser pulse is treated as generalized nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process. For short laser pulses with very few oscillations of the electromagnetic field we find…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-04 T. Nousch , D. Seipt , B. Kampfer , A. I. Titov

Quantum electrodynamics predicts that the quantum vacuum is birefringent, but due to the very small cross-section this is yet to be confirmed by experiment. Vacuum birefringence arises as the elastic part of photon-photon scattering; the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-04 O. Borysov , B. Heinemann , A. Ilderton , B. King , A. Potylitsyn

Electron-positron pair creation occurs throughout the universe in the environments of extreme astrophysical objects, such as pulsar magnetospheres and black hole accretion disks. The difficulty of emulating these environments in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 B. Barbosa , J. P. Palastro , D. Ramsey , K. Weichman , M. Vranic

Counter-propagating and suitably polarized light (laser) beams can provide conditions for pair production. Here, we consider in more detail the following two situations: (i) In the homogeneity regions of anti-nodes of linearly polarized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-20 A. Otto , T. Nousch , D. Seipt B. Kämpfer , D. Blaschke , A. D. Panferov , S. A. Smolyansky , A. I. Titov

Short-pulse effects are investigated for the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process, i.e. the production of an electron-positron pair induced by a gamma photon inside an intense plane-wave laser pulse. To obtain the total pair-creation probability…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-01-29 Sebastian Meuren , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel , Antonino Di Piazza

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

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

Laser-driven brilliant controllable polarized $\gamma$-photon sources open the way for designing compact $\gamma\gamma$ collider, which enable the large yield of linear Breit-Wheeler (LBW) pairs in a single shot and thus provide an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-30 Qian Zhao , Liang Tang , Feng Wan , Bo-Chao Liu , Ruo-Yu Liu , Rui-Zhi Yang , Jin-Qing Yu , Xue-Guang Ren , Zhong-Feng Xu , Yong-Tao Zhao , Yong-Sheng Huang , Jian-Xing Li

Nonlinear squeezing is a property of non-Gaussian states of light with an important application in continuous variable quantum computing. We study the generation of nonlinear squeezing in multimode systems produced by the photon-added…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 Vojtěch Kala , Denis Kopylov , Petr Marek , Polina Sharapova

A possible setup for the experimental verification of linear Breit-Wheeler pair creation of electrons and positrons in photon-photon collisions is studied theoretically. It combines highly energetic bremsstrahlung photons, which are assumed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-20 Alina Golub , Selym Villalba-Chávez , Hartmut Ruhl , Carsten Müller

Non-linear Breit-Wheeler $e^+e^-$ pair production and its crossing channel - the non-linear Compton process - in the multi-photon regime are analyzed for linearly and circularly polarized short laser pulses. The contribution of multi-photon…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 A. I. Titov , A. Otto , B. Kampfer

We discuss a scheme of nonperturbative pair production by high energy photons ($\omega\gtrsim m$) in a strong external field achievable at the next high intensity laser experiments. The pair momentum is boosted and for $\omega\gtrsim 1.2m$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-14 Pisin Chen , Lance Labun

Strong-field high-harmonic generation (HHG) is conventionally described semiclassically, with the driving laser treated as a classical field. This approximation becomes insufficient in nanoscale interaction geometries, where extreme spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Tsendsuren Khurelbaatar , R. T. Sang , Igor Litvinyuk

The linear Breit-Wheeler (LBW) process, mediated by photon-photon collisions, can emerge as the dominant pair production mechanism in the ultraintense laser-plasma interaction for laser intensities below $10^{23}~\rm W/cm^2$. Here, we…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Huai-Hang Song , Zheng-Ming Sheng

With the rapid development of high-power petawatt class lasers worldwide, exploring physics in the strong field QED regime will become one of the frontiers for laser-plasma interactions research. Particle-in-cell codes, including quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-17 Qian Qian , Daniel Seipt , Marija Vranic , Thomas E. Grismayer , Tom G. Blackburn , Christopher P. Ridgers , Alexander G. R. Thomas

High-harmonic generation (HHG) is a nonlinear process in which a strong driving field interacts with a material, resulting in the frequency up-conversion of the driver into its high-order harmonics. This process is highly sensitive to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 J. Rivera-Dean , P. Stammer , M. F. Ciappina , M. Lewenstein

In the quasistatic regimes of nonlinear Breit-Wheeler and trident pair creation, the rates can exhibit a non-analytic dependency on the fundamental coupling of quantum electrodynamics (QED), in a form similar to Schwinger vacuum pair…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-05 B. King , S. Tang

This work provides an overview of our recent results in studying two most important and widely discussed quantum processes: electron-positron pairs production off a probe photon propagating through a polarized short-pulsed electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-22 Alexander I. Titov , Burkhard Kampfer , Atsushi Hosaka , Hideaki Takabe