Upcoming and planned experiments combining increasingly intense lasers and energetic
particle beams will access new regimes of nonlinear, relativistic, quantum effects. This …

The interaction of light with the quantum-vacuum is predicted to give rise to some of the most
fundamental and exotic processes in modern physics, which remain untested in the …

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 …

We put forward a novel method for generating ultrarelativistic vortex positrons and electrons
with intrinsic orbital angular momenta (OAM) through nonlinear Breit-Wheeler (NBW) …

The aim of the DeLLight (deflection of light by light) experiment is to observe optical
nonlinearity in vacuum, as predicted by quantum electrodynamics, by measuring the …

Vortex γ photons with intrinsic orbital angular momenta possess a wealth of applications in
various fields—eg, strong-laser physics, nuclear physics, particle physics, and astrophysics …

The creation of polarized electron-positron pairs by the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process in
short laser pulses is investigated using the Baier-Katkov semiclassical method beyond local …

We investigate the optimization of the photon polarization to increase the yield of the Breit-
Wheeler pair production in arbitrarily polarized plane wave backgrounds. We show that the …

The elastic scattering of two real photons in vacuum is one of the most elusive of the
fundamentally new processes predicted by quantum electrodynamics. This explains why …

High-brilliance high-polarization γ rays based on Compton scattering are of great
significance in broad areas, such as nuclear physics, high-energy physics, astrophysics, etc …