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Tunneling of the 3rd kind
Holger Gies, Joerg Jaeckel
We study a new kind of tunneling of particles through a barrier particular to quantum field theory. Here, the particles traverse the barrier by splitting into a virtual pair of par…
Interferometry of light propagation in pulsed fields
Babette Dobrich, Holger Gies
We investigate the use of ground-based gravitational-wave interferometers for studies of the strong-field domain of QED. Interferometric measurements of phase velocity shifts induc…
Momentum signatures for Schwinger pair production in short laser pulses with a sub-cycle structure
Florian Hebenstreit, Reinhard Alkofer, Gerald V. Dunne +1
We investigate electron-positron pair production from vacuum for short laser pulses with sub-cycle structure, in the nonperturbative regime (Schwinger pair production). We use the…
Strong laser fields as a probe for fundamental physics
Holger Gies
Upcoming high-intensity laser systems will be able to probe the quantum-induced nonlinear regime of electrodynamics. So far unobserved QED phenomena such as the discovery of a nonl…
Pair Production Beyond the Schwinger Formula in Time-Dependent Electric Fields
Florian Hebenstreit, Reinhard Alkofer, Holger Gies
We investigate electron-positron pair production in pulse-shaped electric background fields using a non-Markovian quantum kinetic equation. We identify a pulse-length range for sub…