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 …

Charged particles accelerated by electromagnetic fields emit radiation, which must, by the
conservation of momentum, exert a recoil on the emitting particle. The force of this recoil …

Abstract Particle-in-cell (PIC) methods have a long history in the study of laser-plasma
interactions. Early electromagnetic codes used the Yee staggered grid for field variables …

Abstract The European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) has selected in
2006 a proposal based on ultra-intense laser fields with intensities reaching up to 10 22–10 …

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 …

Electrons in plasmas produced by next-generation ultraintense lasers (I> 5× 10 22 W/cm 2)
can be spin polarized to a high degree (10%–70%) by the laser pulses on a femtosecond …

By taking the spin and polarization of the electrons, positrons and photons into account in
the strong-field QED processes of nonlinear Compton emission and pair production, we find …

High-power laser facilities give experimental access to fundamental strong-field quantum
electrodynamics processes. A key effect to be explored is the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler …

Signatures of quantum effects on radiation reaction in laser–electron-beam collisions Page 1 J.
Plasma Phys. (2017), vol. 83, 715830502 c Cambridge University Press 2017 This is an Open …