[HTML][HTML] Advances in QED with intense background fields

A Fedotov, A Ilderton, F Karbstein, B King, D Seipt… - Physics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
Upcoming and planned experiments combining increasingly intense lasers and energetic
particle beams will access new regimes of nonlinear, relativistic, quantum effects. This …

Charged particle motion and radiation in strong electromagnetic fields

A Gonoskov, TG Blackburn, M Marklund… - Reviews of Modern …, 2022 - APS
The dynamics of charged particles in electromagnetic fields is an essential component of
understanding the most extreme environments in our Universe. In electromagnetic fields of …

[HTML][HTML] Kinetic theory for spin-polarized relativistic plasmas

D Seipt, AGR Thomas - Physics of Plasmas, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The investigation of spin and polarization effects in ultra-high intensity laser–plasma and
laser–beam interactions has become an emergent topic in high-field science recently. In this …

[HTML][HTML] Simulations of laser-driven strong-field QED with Ptarmigan: Resolving wavelength-scale interference and γ-ray polarization

TG Blackburn, B King, S Tang - Physics of Plasmas, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Accurate modeling is necessary to support precision experiments investigating strong-field
QED phenomena. This modeling is particularly challenging in the transition between the …

Loops and polarization in strong-field QED

G Torgrimsson - New Journal of Physics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In a previous paper we showed how higher-order strong-field-QED processes in long laser
pulses can be approximated by multiplying sequences of'strong-field Mueller matrices'. We …

Pair production in rotating electric fields via quantum kinetic equations: Resolving helicity states

IA Aleksandrov, A Kudlis - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We investigate the phenomenon of electron-positron pair production from vacuum in the
presence of a strong electric field of circular polarization. By means of a nonperturbative …

Resummation of quantum radiation reaction in plane waves

G Torgrimsson - Physical review letters, 2021 - APS
We propose a new approach to obtain the momentum expectation value of an electron in a
high-intensity laser, including multiple photon emissions and loops. We find a recursive …

Fully polarized nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production in pulsed plane waves

S Tang - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Fully polarized nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production from a beam of polarized seed
photons is investigated in pulsed plane wave backgrounds. The particle (electron and …

Electron spin-and photon polarization-resolved probabilities of strong-field QED processes

YY Chen, KZ Hatsagortsyan, CH Keitel, R Shaisultanov - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
A derivation of fully polarization-resolved probabilities is provided for high-energy photon
emission and electron-positron pair production in ultrastrong laser fields. The probabilities …

From local to nonlocal: higher fidelity simulations of photon emission in intense laser pulses

TG Blackburn, AJ MacLeod, B King - New Journal of Physics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
State-of-the-art numerical simulations of quantum electrodynamical (QED) processes in
strong laser fields rely on a semiclassical combination of classical equations of motion and …