Electromagnetic Solitons in Quantum Vacuum
Plasma Physics
2020-02-05 v4 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Pattern Formation and Solitons
Abstract
In the limit of extremely intense electromagnetic fields the Maxwell equations are modified due to the photon-photon scattering that makes the vacuum refraction index depend on the field amplitude. In presence of electromagnetic waves with small but finite wavenumbers the vacuum behaves as a dispersive medium. We show that the interplay between the vacuum polarization and the nonlinear effects in the interaction of counter-propagating electromagnetic waves can result in the formation of Kadomtsev-Petviashvily solitons and, in one-dimension configuration, of Korteveg-de-Vries type solitons that can propagate over a large distance without changing their shape.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1910.00455,
title = {Electromagnetic Solitons in Quantum Vacuum},
author = {S. V. Bulanov and P. V. Sasorov and F. Pegoraro and H. Kadlecova and S. S. Bulanov and T. Zh. Esirkepov and N. N. Rosanov and G. Korn},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.00455},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
16 pages, 5 figures