Photon splitting in a laser field

Piazza, A. Di; Milstein, A. I.; Keitel, Christoph H.

doi:10.1103/physreva.76.032103

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“…Recently, indications have been reported for the relevance of QED vacuum birefringence for optical polarimetry of a neutron star [36]. Other theoretical proposals for optical signatures of quantum vacuum nonlinearity have focused on photon-photon scattering in the form of laser-pulse collisions [37][38][39][40], interference effects [41][42][43][44], quantum reflection [45,46], photon merging [47][48][49][50][51], photon splitting [19,[52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60], and higher-harmonic generation from laser driven vacuum [61][62][63][64]. Finally, and perhaps most strikingly, strong electric fields can facilitate the spontaneous formation of real electron-position pairs from the QED vacuum via the Schwinger effect [2,14,15].…”

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An addendum to the Heisenberg-Euler effective action beyond one loop

Gies

Karbstein

2017

J. High Energ. Phys.

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Abstract:We study the effective interactions of external electromagnetic fields induced by fluctuations of virtual particles in the vacuum of quantum electrodynamics. Our main focus is on these interactions at two-loop order. We discuss in detail the emergence of the renowned Heisenberg-Euler effective action from the underlying microscopic theory of quantum electrodynamics, emphasizing its distinction from a standard one-particle irreducible effective action. In our explicit calculations we limit ourselves to constant and slowly varying external fields, allowing us to adopt a locally constant field approximation. One of our main findings is that at two-loop order there is a finite one-particle reducible contribution to the Heisenberg-Euler effective action in constant fields, which was previously assumed to vanish. In addition to their conceptual significance, our results are relevant for high-precision probes of quantum vacuum nonlinearity in strong electromagnetic fields.

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An addendum to the Heisenberg-Euler effective action beyond one loop

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Karbstein

2017

J. High Energ. Phys.

111

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“…The rapid development of ultra-intense laser facilities has rekindled the interest in proposing a possible experimental Correspondence to: I. Ploumistakis, Technical University of Crete, Laboratory of Matter Structure and Laser Physics, Chania 73100, Greece. Email: iploumistakis@isc.tuc.gr setup as seen in various works [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] . Theoretical treatment of pair creation in an oscillating pure electric field and based on the atom ionization theory, was demonstrated in Brezin and Itzykson [12] and Popov's works [13][14][15][16][17][18][19] .…”

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Numerical investigation and potential tunability scheme on and stimulated pair creation from vacuum using high intensity laser beams

Ploumistakis

Moustaizis

Tsohantjis

2016

High Pow Laser Sci Eng

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Numerical estimates for electrons and mesons particle-antiparticle creation from vacuum in the presence of strong electromagnetic fields are derived, using the complete probability density relation of Popov's imaginary time method (Popov, JETP Lett. 13, 185 (1971) (2002)), and within the framework of an experimental setup like the E144 (Burke et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 1626Lett. 79, (1997). The existence of crossing point among pair creation efficiency curves of different photon energies and the role of odd/even multiphoton orders in the production rates are discussed. Finally a kind of tunability process between the two creation processes is discussed.

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“…In this section we study the QED process of photon splitting in a laser field [37]. The geometry of the collision is sketched in Fig.…”

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Quantum interaction among intense laser beams in vacuum

Piazza

Hatsagortsyan

2008

Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top.

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Abstract. Quantum electrodynamics (QED) predicts that electromagnetic fields interact among each other also in vacuum. We study the possibility of experimentally revealing this interaction by using soon available laser fields with intensities of order of 10 23 -10 26 W/cm 2 . First, a few processes are first reviewed where vacuum polarization effects can be detected, like laser-assisted photon-photon scattering and the light diffraction by a strong standing wave. The possibility of enhancing these effects by using a plasma is also mentioned. Finally, the process of photon splitting in a laser field is discussed in detail together with its possible experimental observation.

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Photon splitting in a laser field

Cited by 84 publications

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An addendum to the Heisenberg-Euler effective action beyond one loop

An addendum to the Heisenberg-Euler effective action beyond one loop

Numerical investigation and potential tunability scheme on and stimulated pair creation from vacuum using high intensity laser beams

Quantum interaction among intense laser beams in vacuum

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