Strong field vacuum birefringence in plane wave pulses

Abstract By combining an adiabatic approach based on a ‘locally monochromatic’ approximation with a local Hilbert transform, it is demonstrated how vacuum birefringence in the strong field regime can be calculated using a rate approach suitable for Monte Carlo simulation codes. Results for the flipp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: B. King, T. Heinzl, T. G. Blackburn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2023-10-01
Series:European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-12074-w