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Nonlinear Bethe-Heitler process in a bichromatic laser field is investigated using strong-field QED formalism. Symmetry properties of angular distributions of created $e^-e^+$ pairs are analyzed. These properties are showed to be governed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 K. Krajewska , J. Z. Kaminski

In the presence of an electromagnetic background plane-wave field, electron, positron, and photon states are not stable, because electrons and positrons emit photons and photons decay into electron-positron pairs. This decay of the particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-11 Tobias Podszus , Victor Dinu , Antonino Di Piazza

In [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{117}, 213201 (2016)] we have determined the angular resolved and the total energy spectrum of a positron produced via nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production by a high-energy photon counterpropagating with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-22 A. Di Piazza

The assistance of an intense optical laser pulse on electron-positron pair production by the Breit-Wheeler and Schwinger processes in XFEL fields is analyzed. The impact of a laser beam on high-energy photon collisions with XFEL photons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-04 T. Nousch , A. Otto , D. Seipt , B. Kämpfer , A. I. Titov , D. Blaschke , A. D. Panferov , S. A. Smolyansky

A theoretical and numerical investigation of non-ponderomotive absorption at laser intensities relevant to quantum electrodynamics is presented. It is predicted that there is a regime change in the dependence of fast electron energy on…

The specific features of nonlinear pair production and radiation processes in an ultratsrong rotating electric field are investigated, taking into account that this field models the antinodes of counterpropagating laser beams. It is shown…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-11 Erez Raicher , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan

We study the tunneling mechanism of nonlinear optical processes in solids induced by strong coherent laser fields. The theory is based on an extension of the Landau-Zener model with nonadiabatic geometric effects. In addition to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-15 Shintaro Takayoshi , Jianda Wu , Takashi Oka

Energy-angular distributions of electron-positron pair creation in collisions of a laser beam and a nonlaser photon are calculated using the $S$-matrix formalism. The laser field is modeled as a finite pulse, similar to the formulation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 K. Krajewska , J. Z. Kaminski

The creation of an electron-positron pair in the collision of two real photons, namely the linear Breit-Wheeler process, has never been detected directly in the laboratory since its prediction in 1934 despite its fundamental importance in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 L Esnault , E d'Humières , A Arefiev , X Ribeyre

We show how to use a worldline-instanton formalism to calculate, to leading order in the weak-field expansion, the momentum spectrum of nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production in fields that depend on time and one spatial coordinate. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-29 Gianluca Degli Esposti , Greger Torgrimsson

Bridging quantum optics and strong-field physics provides a pathway to explore how quantum light shapes extreme nonlinear light-matter interactions. However, direct characterization of non-classical light at damage-threshold intensities…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Tsendsuren Khurelbaatar , R. T. Sang , Igor Litvinyuk

We study non-classical and spectral properties of a strongly driven single-atom laser engineered within a photonic crystal that facilitates a frequency-dependent reservoir. In these studies, we apply a dressed atom model approach to derive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rong Tan , Gao-xiang Li , Zbigniew Ficek

Squeezed light has revolutionized quantum metrology by enhancing interferometry for sensitive applications such as the detection of gravitational waves. Squeezed light has also played a pivotal role in quantum information science with…

The forthcoming generation of multi-petawatt lasers opens the way to abundant pair production by the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process, i.e., the decay of a photon into an electron-positron pair inside an intense laser field. In this paper we…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 A. Mercuri-Baron , M. Grech , F. Niel , A. Grassi , M. Lobet , A. Di Piazza , C. Riconda

Nonlinear Compton scattering (NCS) and nonlinear Breit-Wheeler (NBW) process are strongly multi-photon and highly nonlinear processes. In ultra intense lasers (normalized field amplitude $a_0 \gg 1$), radiation formation length is much…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-16 Bo Zhang , Zhi-meng Zhang , Zhi-gang Deng , Wei Hong , Jian Teng , Shu-kai He , Wei-min Zhou , Yu-qiu Gu

High-harmonic generation is a light up-conversion process occurring in a strong laser field, leading to coherent bursts of extreme ultrashort broadband radiation [1]. As a new perspective, we propose that ultrafast strong-field electronic…

The SLAC Experiment 320 collides 10 TW-class laser pulses with the high-quality, 10 GeV electron beam from the FACET-II RF LINAC. This setup is expected to produce a sizable number of $e^+e^-$ pairs via nonlinear Breit-Wheeler mechanism in…

High laser intensities enable the production of electron-positron pairs from bright gamma rays passing through strong fields. Potentially the most promising approach for all-optical experiments in the near term uses dense but higher…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Christopher Arran , Stuart Morris , Christopher P. Ridgers

In this paper we derive and discuss the completely spin- and photon-polarisation dependent probability rates for nonlinear Compton scattering and nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production. The locally constant field approximation, which is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-11-12 D. Seipt , B. King

Generation of arbitrarily spin-polarized lepton (here refer in particular to electron and positron) beams has been investigated in the single-shot interaction of high-energy polarized $\gamma$ photons with an ultraintense asymmetric laser…