Probing the quantum vacuum with ultra intense laser pulses

Hegelich, B. M.; Mourou, G.; Rafelski, Johann

doi:10.1140/epjst/e2014-02160-8

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“…Today there is a new interest to return to the physics of QED of strong fields in a new experimental realm. In the focal point of very short pulse ultra intense lasers [93] we approach if not today, then in the near tomorrow the critical fields condition. The ultra intense lasers just like the heavy-ion collisions draw their importance from the fact that they form the unique laboratory based testing ground for QED of strong fields.…”

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confidence: 99%

Probing QED Vacuum with Heavy Ions

Rafelski

Kirsch

Müller

et al. 2016

New Horizons in Fundamental Physics

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confidence: 99%

Probing QED Vacuum with Heavy Ions

Rafelski

Kirsch

Müller

et al. 2016

New Horizons in Fundamental Physics

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“…Nevertheless, recent progress in laser physics allows one to hope that an experimental observation of the effect can be possible in the near future; see Refs. [14][15][16][17][18] for the review. Electron-hole pair creation from the vacuum becomes also an observable effect in graphene and similar nanostructures in laboratory; see, e.g., [19,20].…”

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confidence: 99%

Particle creation by peak electric field

2016

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The particle creation by the so-called peak electric field is considered. The latter field is a combination of two exponential parts, one exponentially increasing and another exponentially decreasing. We find exact solutions of the Dirac equation with the field under consideration with appropriate asymptotic conditions and calculate all the characteristics of particle creation effect, in particular, differential mean numbers of created particle, total number of created particles, and the probability for a vacuum to remain a vacuum. Characteristic asymptotic regimes are discussed in detail and a comparison with the pure asymptotically decaying field is considered.

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“…This is natural scale, defining relativistic "locality" in a quantum setting. Given the recent work with ultra-powerful lasers [71], perhaps quantitative tests of this type will become possible in the coming decades).…”

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Holography in a background-independent effective theory

Torrieri

2015

Int. J. Geom. Methods Mod. Phys.

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We discuss the meaning of the strong equivalence principle when applied to a quantum field theory. We show that, because of unitary inequivalence of accelerated frames, the only way for the strong equivalence principle to apply exactly is to add a boundary term representing the decoherence of degrees of freedom leaving the observable region of the bulk. We formulate the constraints necessary for the partition function to be covariant with respect to non-inertial transformations and argue that, when the non-unitary part is expressed as a functional integral over the horizon, holography arises naturally as a consequence of the equivalence principle.

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Probing the quantum vacuum with ultra intense laser pulses

Cited by 22 publications

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Probing QED Vacuum with Heavy Ions

Probing QED Vacuum with Heavy Ions

Particle creation by peak electric field

Holography in a background-independent effective theory

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