Strong-field vacuum polarisation with high energy lasers

Strong-field vacuum polarisation with high energy lasers

When photons propagate in vacuum they may fluctuate into matter pairs thus allowing the vacuum to be polarised. This linear effect leads to charge screening and renormalisation. When exposed to an intense background field a nonlinear effect can arise when the vacuum is polarised by higher powers of...

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Main Authors: A J Macleod, J P Edwards, T Heinzl, B King, S V Bulanov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
Subjects:
vacuum birefringence
strong field physics
high energy physics
helicity flip
high power lasers
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/acf1c0

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