From local to nonlocal: higher fidelity simulations of photon emission in intense laser pulses

State-of-the-art numerical simulations of quantum electrodynamical (QED) processes in strong laser fields rely on a semiclassical combination of classical equations of motion and QED rates, which are calculated in the locally constant field approximation. However, the latter approximation is unrelia...

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Main Authors: T G Blackburn, A J MacLeod, B. King
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2021-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ac1bf6