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 …

With the recent advances in laser technology, experimental investigation of radiation
reaction phenomena is at last becoming a realistic prospect. A pedagogical introduction to …

When an ultrarelativistic electron beam collides with a sufficiently intense laser pulse,
radiation-reaction effects can strongly alter the beam dynamics. In the realm of classical …

Here, we demonstrate the radiative polarization of high-energy electron beams in collisions
with ultrashort pulsed bichromatic laser fields. Employing a Boltzmann kinetic approach for …

Electron–positron pair production due to the decay of vacuum in ultrastrong laser fields is an
interesting topic which is revived recently because of the rapid development of current laser …

We investigate quantum radiation reaction in laser-electron interactions across different
energy and intensity regimes. Using a fully quantum approach which also accounts exactly …

We test current numerical implementations of laser-matter interactions by comparison with
exact analytical results. Focusing on photon emission processes, it is found that the …

QED perturbation theory has been conjectured to break down in sufficiently strong
backgrounds, obstructing the analysis of strong-field physics. We show that the breakdown …

We derive radiation reaction from QED in a strong background field. We identify, in general,
the diagrams and processes contributing to recoil effects in the average momentum of a …

Thomson backscattering of intense laser pulses from relativistic electrons not only allows for
the generation of bright x-ray pulses but also for the investigation of the complex particle …