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Strong field vacuum birefringence in plane wave pulses
B. King, T. Heinzl, T. G. Blackburn
By combining an adiabatic approach based on a `locally monochromatic' approximation with a local Hilbert transform, it is demonstrated how vacuum birefringence in the strong field…
Classical Radiation Reaction in Red-Shifted Harmonics
B. King
The collision of a finite electromagnetic plane wave with an electron subject to the Landau-Lifshitz radiation reaction force is studied. A locally monochromatic approximation is d…
Simulations of laser-driven strong-field QED with Ptarmigan: Resolving wavelength-scale interference and -ray polarization
T. G. Blackburn, B. King, S. Tang
Accurate modelling is necessary to support precision experiments investigating strong-field QED phenomena. This modelling is particularly challenging in the transition between the…
Strong-field vacuum polarisation with high energy lasers
A. J. Macleod, J. P. Edwards, T. Heinzl +2
When photons propagate in vacuum they may fluctuate into matter pairs thus allowing the vacuum to be polarised. This linear effect leads to charge screening and renormalisation. Wh…
Locally monochromatic two-step nonlinear trident process in a plane wave
S. Tang, B. King
In many-cycle plane waves at intermediate intensities, the nonlinear trident process can be well-approximated by the two sequential steps of nonlinear Compton scattering of a polar…
Using nonlinear Breit-Wheeler to test nonlinear vacuum birefringence
O. Borysov, B. Heinemann, A. Ilderton +2
Quantum electrodynamics predicts that the quantum vacuum is birefringent, but due to the very small cross-section this is yet to be confirmed by experiment. Vacuum birefringence ar…