We provide a pedagogical review article on fundamentals and applications of the quantum
dynamics in strong electromagnetic fields in QED and QCD. The fundamentals include the …

The production of electron-positron pairs from light is a famous prediction of quantum
electrodynamics. Yet it is often emphasized that the number of produced pairs has no …

A bstract We study the vacuum pair production by a time-dependent strong electric field
based on the exact WKB analysis. We identify the generic structure of a Stokes graph for …

Electron-positron pair production in strong electric fields, ie, the Sauter-Schwinger effect, is
studied using the real-time Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism. Hereby, the electric field is …

Production of electron-positron pairs in two oscillating strong electric field pulses with largely
different frequencies and durations is considered. In a first scenario, the influence of a low …

Nonlinear Compton scattering is calculated for the collision of an electron with a plane-wave
pulse. A midinfrared (IR) peak arises in the photon spectrum due to long-range interference …

The momentum signatures of created pairs in the multiphoton regime in strong fields are
investigated and obvious vortex patterns that are constituted of the quasi-Archimedian …

We study the pair-production process in the presence of two counterpropagating linearly
polarized short laser pulses. By means of a nonperturbative technique, we take into account …

We study particle and chirality production from the vacuum in the presence of a slow strong
parallel electromagnetic field superimposed by a fast weak perturbative electromagnetic …

Scalar and fermionic particle pair production in rotating electric fields is investigated in the
nonperturbative multiphoton regime. Angular momentum distribution functions in above …