[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 …

Extremely high-intensity laser interactions with fundamental<? format?> quantum systems

A Di Piazza, C Müller, KZ Hatsagortsyan… - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2012 - APS
The field of laser-matter interaction traditionally deals with the response of atoms, molecules,
and plasmas to an external light wave. However, the recent sustained technological …

Strong-field physics in QED and QCD: From fundamentals to applications

K Hattori, K Itakura, S Ozaki - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

Multiple Colliding Electromagnetic Pulses: A Way to Lower the Threshold <?format ?>of Pair Production from Vacuum

SS Bulanov, VD Mur, NB Narozhny, J Nees, VS Popov - Physical review letters, 2010 - APS
The scheme of a simultaneous multiple pulse focusing on one spot naturally arises from the
structural features of projected new laser systems, such as the Extreme Light Infrastructure …

Schwinger mechanism revisited

F Gelis, N Tanji - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2016 - Elsevier
In this article, we review recent theoretical works on the Schwinger mechanism of particle
production in external electrical fields. Although the non-perturbative Schwinger mechanism …

Schwinger limit attainability with extreme power lasers

SS Bulanov, TZ Esirkepov, AGR Thomas, JK Koga… - Physical review …, 2010 - APS
High intensity colliding laser pulses can create abundant electron-positron pair plasma [AR
Bell and JG Kirk, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 200403 (2008) PRLTAO 0031-9007 …

Schwinger pair production in space-and time-dependent electric fields:<? format?> Relating the Wigner formalism to quantum kinetic theory

F Hebenstreit, R Alkofer, H Gies - … Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and …, 2010 - APS
The nonperturbative electron-positron pair production (Schwinger effect) is considered for
space-and time-dependent electric fields E→(x→, t). Based on the Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner …

Catalysis of Schwinger vacuum pair production

GV Dunne, H Gies, R Schützhold - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields …, 2009 - APS
We propose a new catalysis mechanism for nonperturbative vacuum electron-positron pair
production, by superimposing a plane-wave x-ray probe beam with a strongly focused …

The Heisenberg-Euler effective action: 75 years on

GV Dunne - International Journal of Modern Physics: Conference …, 2012 - World Scientific
THE HEISENBERG-EULER EFFECTIVE ACTION: 75 YEARS ON Page 1 Quantum Field
Theory Under the Influence of External Conditions (QFEXT11) International Journal of Modern …

Complete QED theory of multiphoton trident pair production in strong laser fields

H Hu, C Müller, CH Keitel - Physical review letters, 2010 - APS
Electron-positron pair creation by multiphoton absorption in the collision of a relativistic
electron with a strong laser beam is calculated within laser-dressed quantum …