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 …

Smilei is a collaborative, open-source, object-oriented (C++) particle-in-cell code. To benefit
from the latest advances in high-performance computing (HPC), Smilei is co-developed by …

Laser wakefield accelerators promise to revolutionize many areas of accelerator science.
However, one of the greatest challenges to their widespread adoption is the difficulty in …

This review aims at providing an up-to-date status and a general introduction to the subject
of the numerical study of energetic particle acceleration and transport in turbulent …

Electron-positron plasmas appear in the early Universe and many cosmic environments. In
this paper, a (3+ 1)-dimensional modified Korteweg-de Vries-Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation …

Since the invention of chirped pulse amplification, which was recognized by a Nobel Prize in
physics in 2018, there has been a continuing increase in available laser intensity. Combined …

Pair production can be triggered by high-intensity lasers via the Breit–Wheeler process.
However, the straightforward laser–laser colliding for copious numbers of pair creation …

Generation of energetic electron-positron pairs using multi-petawatt (PW) lasers has recently
attracted increasing interest. However, some previous laser-driven positron beams have …

We derive an approximation to QED effects in intense laser fields which can be employed in
laser-particle collisions. Treating the laser as a plane wave of arbitrary intensity, we split the …

The generation of ultrarelativistic polarized positrons during the interaction of an
ultrarelativistic electron beam with a counterpropagating two-color petawatt laser pulse is …