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19982022
most citedOn the Observation of Vacuum Birefringence

297 citations · 351 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

hep-ph2022

Field-assisted birefringent Compton scattering

N. Ahmadiniaz, T. E. Cowan, M. Ding +4

Motivated by experimental initiatives such as the Helmholtz International Beamline for Extreme Fields (HIBEF), we study Compton scattering of x-rays at electrons in a strong extern…

quant-ph2021

Ginzburg effect in a dielectric medium with dispersion and dissipation

Sascha Lang, Roland Sauerbrey, Ralf Schützhold +1

As a quantum analog of Cherenkov radiation, an inertial photon detector moving through a medium with constant refractive index may perceive the electromagnetic quantum fluctuat…

physics.optics2021

Self-Focussing of an Intense X-Ray Beam in Vacuum

Roland Sauerbrey, Christian Kohlfürst

The quantum vacuum shows an intensity-dependent nonlinear index of refraction. Consequently, we may consider vacuum as a non-linear medium enabling, at sufficiently high field stre…

quant-ph2021★ 6 cited

High-gain quantum free-electron laser: long-time dynamics and requirements

Peter Kling, Enno Giese, C. Moritz Carmesin +2

We solve the long-time dynamics of a high-gain free-electron laser in the quantum regime. In this regime each electron emits at most one photon on average, independently of the ini…

hep-ph2020★ 21 cited

On the Heisenberg limit for detecting vacuum birefringence

N. Ahmadiniaz, T. E. Cowan, R. Sauerbrey +3

Quantum electrodynamics predicts the vacuum to behave as a non-linear medium, including effects such as birefringence. However, for experimentally available field strengths, this v…

quant-ph2019★ 12 cited

Quantum and classical phase-space dynamics of a free-electron laser

C. Moritz Carmesin, Peter Kling, Enno Giese +2

In a quantum mechanical description of the free-electron laser (FEL) the electrons jump on discrete momentum ladders, while they follow continuous trajectories according to the cla…