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Testing extra dimensions at low-energies may lead to interesting effects. In this work a test point charge is taken to move uniformly in the 3-dimensional subspace of a (3+$n$)-brane embedded in a (3+$n$+1)-space with $n$ compact and one…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hugo A. Morales-Técotl , Omar Pedraza , Luis O. Pimentel

A strong, far-detuned laser can shift the energy levels of an optically active quantum system via the AC Stark effect. We demonstrate that the polarization of the laser results in a spin-selective modification to the energy structure of a…

When polarized electrons traverse a region where the laser light is focused their polarization varies even if their energy and direction of motion are not changed. This effect is due to interference of the incoming electron wave and an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 G. L. Kotkin , H. Perlt , V. G. Serbo

It is shown that in degenerate magnetized Fermi-Dirac plasma where the electron-orbital are quantized distinct quantum hydrodynamic (QHD) limits exist in which the nonlinear density waves behave differently. The Coulomb interaction among…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Akbari-Moghanjoughi

We consider a point charge fixed in the Rindler coordinates which describe a uniformly accelerated frame. We determine an integral expression of the induced charge density due to the vacuum polarization at the first order in the fine…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 B. Linet

We present a theoretical analysis of dynamic spin injection due to spin-dependent tunneling between a quantum well (QW) and a bound state split in spin projection due to an exchange interaction or external magnetic field. We focus on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-06 N. S. Maslova , I. V. Rozhansky , V. N. Mantsevich , P. I. Arseyev , N. S. Averkiev , E. Lahderanta

We present a theoretical study of radiative transfer in strongly magnetized electron-ion plasmas, focusing on the effect of vacuum polarization due to quantum electrodynamics. This study is directly relevant to thermal radiation from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dong Lai , W. C. G. Ho

Vacuum polarization, a key prediction of quantum theory, can cause a variety of intriguing phenomena that can be triggered by high-intensity laser pulses. The Heisenberg-Euler theory of the quantum vacuum supplements Maxwell's theory of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-28 Andreas Lindner , Baris Ölmez , Hartmut Ruhl

We discuss the experimental techniques used to date for measuring the changes in polarization state of a laser produced by a strong transverse magnetic field acting in a vacuum. We point out the likely artifacts that can arise in such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-10-10 Christopher C. Davis , Joseph Harris , Robert W. Gammon , Igor I. Smolyaninov , Kyuman Cho

To describe charged particles interacting with the quantized electromagnetic field, we point out the differences of working in the so-called generalized and the true Coulomb gauges. We find an explicit gauge transformation between them for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Robert Zietal , Claudia Eberlein

Development of QED cascades in a standing electromagnetic wave for circular and linear polarizations is simulated numerically with a 3D PIC-MC code. It is demonstrated that for the same laser energy the number of particles produced in a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-10-16 V. F. Bashmakov , E. N. Nerush , I. Yu. Kostyukov , A. M. Fedotov , N. B. Narozhny

The processes of ionization and energy transfer in a quantum system composed of two distant H atoms with an initial internuclear separation of 100 atomic units (5.29 nm) have been studied by the numerical solution of the time-dependent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Guennaddi K. Paramonov , Andre D. Bandrauk , Oliver Kühn

We theoretically study the influence of laser polarization in inelastic scattering of electrons by hydrogen atoms in the presence of a circularly polarized laser field in the domain of field strengths below $10^{7}$ V/cm and high projectile…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Gabriela Buică

We consider the interaction of hydrogen-like atoms with a strong laser field and show that the strong field approximation and all its variants may be grouped into a set of families of approximation schemes. This is done by introducing an…

A novel and universal interference structure is found in the photoelectron momentum distribution of atoms in intense infrared laser field. Theoretical analysis shows that this structure can be attributed to a new form of…

Ionization of hydrogen-like ions by intense, circularly polarized laser pulses is analyzed under the scope of the relativistic strong-field approximation. We show that, for specific parameters of the laser field, the energy spectra of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-12-30 F. Cajiao Vélez , J. Z. Kamiński , K. Krajewska

We find third-power nonlinear corrections to the Coulomb and other static electric fields, as well as to the electric and magnetic dipole fields, as we work within QED with no background field. The nonlinear response function we base our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-30 Caio V. Costa , Dmitry M. Gitman , Anatoly E. Shabad

Highly magnetized neutron stars exhibit the vacuum non-linear electrodynamics effects, which can be well described using the one-loop effective action for quantum electrodynamics. In this context, we study the propagation and polarization…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-13 Dong-Hoon Kim , Chul Min Kim , Sang Pyo Kim

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

The influence of an external electromagnetic field on the vacuum structure of a quantized Dirac field is investigated by considering the quantum corrections to classical Maxwell's lagrangian density induced by fluctuations of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 J. L. Tomazelli