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A strong electromagnetic field polarizes the vacuum and in the presence of an electric field creates pairs of a charged particle and its anti-particle. Magnetars, highly magnetized neutron stars with magnetic field comparable to or greater…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-07 Chul Min Kim , Sang Pyo Kim

We study the splitting between the right-hand and left-hand circularly polarized luminescence lines in a quantum dot under relatively weak confinement regime and resonant high-power excitation. When the dot is populated with an even number…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Boris A. Rodriguez , Augusto Gonzalez

We calculate thermal photon and electron pair distribution from hot QCD matter produced in high energy heavy-ion collisions, based on a hydrodynamical model which is so tuned as to reproduce the recent experimental data at CERN SPS, and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-04-15 T. Hirano , S. Muroya , M. Namiki

We review the effects of strong background fields in noncommutative QED. Beginning with the noncommutative Maxwell and Dirac equations, we describe how combined noncommutative and strong field effects modify the propagation of fermions and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-27 Anton Ilderton , Joakim Lundin , Mattias Marklund

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

The effects of high-temperature, dense systems, and strong magnetic fields on Quantum Chromodynamics related phenomena are studied in different perspectives: in the high-temperature and densities, the QCD-phase diagram from the Linear Sigma…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-14 Jorge David Castaño-Yepes

Ultrarelativistic electron-positron plasmas can be produced in high-intensity laser fields and play a role in various astrophysical situations. Their properties can be calculated using QED at finite temperature. Here we will use…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Markus H. Thoma

Colliding bunches of high-energy electrons with intense laser pulses provides a basis for studying strong-field QED processes enabled by high values of quantum non-linearity parameter $\chi$. Nevertheless, the signal deconvolution is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Christoffer Olofsson , Arkady Gonoskov

Analytical calculations of radiative corrections in strong-field QED have hinted that in the presence of an intense plane wave the effective coupling of the theory in the high-energy sector may increase as the $(2/3)$-power of the energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-10 T. Podszus , A. Di Piazza

Magnetic field usually leads to a polarization of electron spins. It is shown that in a system of {\em strongly interacting} particles applying magnetic field may lead to an opposite effect -- depolarization of electron spins. Results of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. A. Mikhailov , N. A. Savostianova

I present recent results on the theory of QCD matter production in high energy heavy ion collisions and on the interactions of heavy quarks in such environment. The centrality and rapidity dependence of hadron production is evaluated in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Kharzeev

Electron-positron pair production in oscillating electric fields is investigated in the nonperturbative threshold regime. Accurate numerical solutions of quantum kinetic theory for corresponding observables are presented and analyzed in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-13 Christian Kohlfürst , Holger Gies , Reinhard Alkofer

This paper deals with QED-particles and the interaction between them on a classical level. The Maxwell-equations are used mainly. (Proofs are not used in a mathematical but intuitive sense.) In the first step the main statements are…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Dudas

Production of electron-positron pairs from the quantum vacuum polarized by the superposition of a strong and a perturbative oscillating electric-field mode is studied. Our outcomes rely on a nonequilibrium quantum field theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-09 Ibrahim Akal , Selym Villalba-Chávez , Carsten Müller

A detailed quantum-electrodynamic calculation of muon pair creation in laser-driven electron-positron collisions is presented. The colliding particles stem from a positronium atom exposed to a superintense laser wave of linear polarization,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Carsten Müller , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

Strong-field quantum electrodynamics offers a unique window into non-perturbative phenomena such as vacuum pair production, in which electron--positron pairs are created from the vacuum in the presence of intense electromagnetic fields. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-30 Ivo Schulthess

We develop a novel method for strong-laser-field physics based on the combination of the semiclassical Herman-Kluk propagator and the strong-field approximation and demonstrate its high accuracy on the calculations of photoelectron momentum…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-08-26 Phi-Hung Tran , Van-Hung Hoang , Anh-Thu Le

We evaluate the cross section for electron-positron pair production by a single high energy photon in the space-time of a static, straight cosmic string. Energy and momentum conservation precludes this process in empty Minkowski space. It…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Vladimir Skarzhinsky , Diego Harari , Ulf Jasper

We investigated electron emissions in strong field enhanced ionization of asymmetric diatomic molecules by quantum calculations. It is demonstrated that the widely-used intuitive physical pic- ture, i.e., electron wave packet direct…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Cheng Huang , Pengfei Lan , Yueming Zhou , Qingbin Zhang , Kunlong Liu , Peixiang Lu

A two-beam high-power laser facility is essential for the study of one of the most captivating phenomena predicted by strong-field quantum electrodynamics (QED) and yet unobserved experimentally: the avalanche-type cascade. In such a…