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most citedGeneration of relativistic positrons carrying intrinsic orbital angular momentum

13 citations · 36 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

physics.optics2025

Super light-by-light scattering in vacuum induced by intense vortex lasers

Zhigang Bu, Lingang Zhang, Shiyu Liu +4

Collision of ultra-intense optical laser and X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) pulses is a promising approach to detecting nonlinear vacuum polarization (VP), a long-standing predic…

hep-ph2023★ 4 cited

Transfer of spin to orbital angular momentum in the Bethe-Heitler process

Shaohu Lei, Shiyu Liu, Weiqing Wang +3

According to the conservation of angular momentum, when a plane-wave polarized photon splits into a pair of electron-positron under the influence of the Coulomb field, the spin ang…

physics.optics2023

Generation of Quantum Vortex Electrons with Intense Laser Pulses

Zhigang Bu, Liangliang Ji, Xuesong Geng +5

Accelerating a free electron to high energy forms the basis for studying particle and nuclear physics. Here it is shown that wavefunction of such an energetic electron can be furth…

hep-ph2021★ 13 cited

Generation of relativistic positrons carrying intrinsic orbital angular momentum

Shaohu Lei, Zhigang Bu, Weiqing Wang +2

High energy positrons can be efficiently created through high-energy photons splitting into electron-positron pairs under the influence of the Coulomb field. Here we show that a ne…

hep-ph2021

Vortex Breit-Wheeler Electron-positron pair creation via vortex gamma-photons

Zhigang Bu, Liangliang Ji, Shaohu Lei +3

Particles in quantum vortex states (QVS) carrying definite orbital angular momenta (OAM) brings new perspectives in various fundamental interaction processes. When unique propertie…

gr-qc2021

Unruh effect and angular momentum correlation of Rindler particles

Zhigang Bu, Liangliang Ji, Baifei Shen

It is well known that the rotational motion does not induce Unruh effect, because the Minkowski vacuum coincides with the vacuum state defined by the pure rotating observers. Howev…

hep-ph2020★ 10 cited

Axionlike-particle generation by laser-plasma interaction

Shan Huang, Baifei Shen, Zhigang Bu +3

The hypothetical axion and axion-like particles, feebly coupled with photon, have not yet been found in any experiment. With the improvement of laser technique, much stronger but s…

physics.plasm-ph2019★ 5 cited

Generalizing the Sokolov-Ternov effect for radiative polarization in intense laser fields

X. S. Geng, Z. G. Bu, Y. T. Wu +7

A consistent description of the radiative polarization for relativistic electrons in intense laser fields is derived by generalizing the Sokolov-Ternov effect in general field stru…

physics.plasm-ph2018

Spin-to-Orbital Conversion of Angular Momentum in Harmonic Generation Driven by Intense Circularly Polarized Beam

Shasha Li, Xiaomei Zhang, Weifeng Gong +2

A new physical mechanism to achieve spin-to-orbital angular momentum conversion based on the interaction of an intense circularly polarized (CP) laser beam with a plane foil is pre…

physics.plasm-ph2013★ 4 cited

Nonlinear theory of intense laser-plasma interactions modified by vacuum-polarization effects

Wenbo Chen, Zhigang Bu, Hehe Li +2

The classical nonlinear laser-plasma interaction theory is corrected. Given the effects of vacuum polarization (induced by extreme laser) as nonlinear media response, one-dimension…

physics.plasm-ph2013

Modified surface redshift of pulsars and magnetars by magnetized plasmas and vacuum polarization

Yuee Luo, Zhigang Bu, Wenbo Chen +2

The propagation of emissions in the relativistic streaming pair plasmas of pulsars and magnetars is studied within the framework of Gordon effective metric theory, and the effect o…

physics.optics2013

The spin-orbit interaction and the spin-spin interaction of photons in an inhomogeneous medium

Hehe Li, Zhigang Bu, Yuee Luo +2

By means of the optical metric, we investigate the propagation of a polarized light in an inhomogeneous medium in this paper. We find that the evolution of photons is affected by t…

physics.plasm-ph2013

Dynamical Evolution of Photons in Plasma Waves

Zhigang Bu, Yuee Luo, Hehe Li +2

On the viewpoint of corpuscular model an electromagnetic radiation can be regarded as a system composed of photons with different energies and momenta, which provides us a method b…