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We investigate the process of creating electron-positron pairs from laser-matter interaction in pre-ionised foam targets using particle-in-cell simulations. A high-intensity laser pulse drives electrons via direct laser acceleration up to a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Oliver Mathiak , Lars Reichwein , Alexander Pukhov

The quantum electrodynamical vacuum polarization effects arising in the collision of a high-energy proton beam and a strong, linearly polarized laser field are investigated. The probability that laser photons merge into one photon by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Di Piazza , K. Z. Hatsagortsyan , C. H. Keitel

Electrons in a spherical ultracold quasineutral plasma at temperature in the Kelvin range can be created by laser excitation of an ultra-cold laser cooled atomic cloud. The dynamical behavior of the electrons is similar to the one described…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 D. Comparat , T. Vogt , N. Zahzam , M. Mudrich , P. Pillet

The existence of soliton-like electromagnetic (EM) distributions in a fully degenerate electron-positron plasma is studied applying relativistic hydrodynamic and Maxwell equations. For circularly polarized wave it is found that the soliton…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 V. I. Berezhiani , N. L. Shatashvili , N. L. Tsintsadze

A fully relativistic treatment of Bernstein waves in an electron-positron pair plasma has remained too formidable a task owing to the very complex nature of the problem. In this article, we perform contour integration of the dielectric…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-19 Ramandeep Gill , Jeremy S. Heyl

The process of electron-positron pair production is investigated within the phase-space Wigner formalism. The similarities between atomic ionization and pair production for homogeneous, but time-dependent linearly polarized electric fields…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-21 Christian Kohlfürst

The mass symmetry between the two species in electron-positron (pair) plasmas has interesting consequences for collisionless magnetic reconnection because the Hall term, which plays a crucial role in supporting fast reconnection in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Swisdak , Y. H. Liu , J. F. Drake

Formulas to describe the photoabsorption and the photon scattering by a plasma or a liquid metal are derived in a unified manner with each other. It is shown how the nuclear motion, the free-electron motion and the core-electron behaviour…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Junzo Chihara

We discussed the photoproduction of pair of charged particles $a\bar{a}\quad (a=e,\mu,\pi)$ as well as the double photon emission processes off an electron accounting for the polarization of colliding particles. In the kinematics when all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-04 S. R. Gevorkyan , E. A. Kuraev

Polarization holonomy is analytically determined for maximally entangled photon pairs that transit a class of closed trajectories in the Kerr metric. This is used to define and investigate an entanglement holonomy not associated with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-07 Mark T. Lusk

The processes of neutrino production of electron-positron pairs, $\nu \bar\nu \to e^- e^+$ and $\nu \to \nu e^- e^+$, in a magnetic field of arbitrary strength, where electrons and positrons can be created in the states corresponding to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-17 A. V. Kuznetsov , D. A. Rumyantsev , V. N. Savin

We demonstrate paired generation of a single photo-electron in a quantum dot and a single photon from a single polarization-entangled photon pair that is generated by spontaneous parametric down conversion. The electron is reated in a GaAs…

The "dyadosphere" (from the Greek word "duas-duados" for pairs) is here defined as the region outside the horizon of a black hole endowed with an electromagnetic field (abbreviated to EMBH for "electromagnetic black hole") where the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Remo Ruffini

An electron-positron pair ($e^- e^+$) is created in vacuum above a critical electric field strength $E_{crt}$ which is quite large in the laboratory scale. The photon, thus the field, annihilates in the pair creation process. Here, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-23 Mehmet Emre Tasgin

We study the homologous collapse of stellar nuclear core, the virial theorem for hadron collisional relaxations, and photon productions from hadron collisions. We thus show the gravo-thermal dynamical process that transforms gravitational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-04 She-Sheng Xue

We study the electrical conductivity of finite-temperature crust of a warm compact star which may be formed in the aftermath of a supernova explosion or a binary neutron star merger as well as when a cold neutron star is heated by accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-13 Arus Harutyunyan , Armen Sedrakian

We study the evolution of ultracold plasmas by measuring the electron temperature. Shortly after plasma formation, competition between heating and cooling mechanisms drives the electron temperature to a value within a narrow range…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. L. Roberts , C. F. Fertig , M. L. Lim , S. L. Rolston

Recent experimental measurements of the time interval between detection of the two photons emitted in positron/electron annihilation have indicated that collapse of the spatial part of the photon's wavefunction, due to detection of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Victor D. Irby

Astrophysical black holes are usually surrounded by an accretion disk. At least parts of these accretion disks consist of a plasma in which light rays with different energies are dispersed. However, we usually do not know the exact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-21 Torben C. Frost

We performed ab-initio Particle-In-Cell (PIC) simulations of a pulsar magnetosphere with electron-positron plasma produced only in the regions close to the neutron star surface. We study how the magnetosphere transitions from the vacuum to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-10 Gabriele Brambilla , Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Andrey Timokhin , Alice Harding , Demosthenes Kazanas