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20122026
most citedAdvances in QED with intense background fields

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43 papers

gr-qc2026

Scattered wave functions and worldline instantons for particle production in curved spacetime

Philip Semrén, Greger Torgrimsson

We study the production of spin- particle-antiparticle pairs in curved spacetimes with nontrivial dependence on more than one coordinate. To this end, we develop two complemen…

hep-ph2025

Solving the Dirac equation on a GPU for strong-field processes in multidimensional background fields

Greger Torgrimsson

In this paper, we show how to solve the Dirac equation, , on a GPU. This is orders of magnitude faster than solving it on CPU and allows u…

hep-ph2025

Momentum correlation in pair production by spacetime dependent fields from scattered wave functions

Greger Torgrimsson

We consider Sauter-Schwinger pair production by electric fields that depend on both time and space, and . For space-independent fields, , momentum conserva…

hep-th2025

Worldline instantons for nonperturbative particle production by space and time dependent gravitational fields

Philip Semrén, Greger Torgrimsson

We develop a worldline-instanton approach for calculating the momentum spectrum of particles produced by gravitational fields which depend on both space and time. The instantons ar…

hep-ph2024

Nonlinear trident using WKB and worldline instantons

Gianluca Degli Esposti, Greger Torgrimsson

We consider nonlinear trident, , in various electric background fields. This…

hep-ph2024★ 5 cited

Schwinger pair production in spacetime fields: Moiré patterns, Aharonov-Bohm phases and Sturm-Liouville eigenvalues

Gianluca Degli Esposti, Greger Torgrimsson

We use a worldline-instanton formalism to study the momentum spectrum of Schwinger pair production in spacetime fields with multiple stationary points. We show that the interferenc…

hep-ph2024

Quantum radiation reaction: Analytical approximations and obtaining the spectrum from moments

Greger Torgrimsson

We derive analytical approximations for spin-dependent quantum radiation reaction for locally constant and locally monochromatic fields. We show how to factor out fast spin…

hep-ph2023

Momentum spectrum of nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production in space-time fields

Gianluca Degli Esposti, Greger Torgrimsson

We show how to use a worldline-instanton formalism to calculate, to leading order in the weak-field expansion, the momentum spectrum of nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production in f…

hep-ph2023

Quantum radiation reaction spectrum of electrons in plane waves

Greger Torgrimsson

In previous works we derived equations for the average momentum of high-energy electrons experiencing quantum radiation reaction (RR) in strong electromagnetic plane-wave backgroun…

hep-ph2023

Momentum spectrum of Schwinger pair production in four-dimensional e-dipole fields

Gianluca Degli Esposti, Greger Torgrimsson

We calculate the momentum spectrum of electron-positron pairs created via the Schwinger mechanism by a class of four-dimensional electromagnetic fields called e-dipole fields. To t…

hep-ph2022★ 18 cited

Worldline instantons for the momentum spectrum of Schwinger pair production in space-time dependent fields

Gianluca Degli Esposti, Greger Torgrimsson

We show how to use the worldline-instanton formalism to calculate the momentum spectrum of the electron-positron pairs produced by an electric field that depends on both space and…

physics.plasm-ph2022★ 24 cited

Plasma dynamics at the Schwinger limit and beyond

Gert Brodin, Haidar Al-Naseri, Jens Zamanian +2

Strong field physics close to or above the Schwinger limit are typically studied with vacuum as initial condition, or by considering test particle dynamics. However, with a plasma…

hep-ph2022

Resummation of the expansion for nonlinear pair production

Greger Torgrimsson

We show how to resum the Furry-picture expansion in order to take quantum radiation reaction and spin transition into account in the nonlinear trident process in (pulsed) plane…

hep-ph2022★ 414 cited

Advances in QED with intense background fields

A. Fedotov, A. Ilderton, F. Karbstein +4

Upcoming and planned experiments combining increasingly intense lasers and energetic particle beams will access new regimes of nonlinear, relativistic, quantum effects. This improv…

hep-ph2021★ 19 cited

Worldline instantons for nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production and Compton scattering

Gianluca Degli Esposti, Greger Torgrimsson

Worldline instantons have previously been used to study the probability of Schwinger pair production (both the exponential and pre-exponential parts) and photon-stimulated pair pro…

hep-ph2021★ 19 cited

Resummation of quantum radiation reaction and induced polarization

Greger Torgrimsson

In a previous paper we proposed a new method based on resummations for studying radiation reaction of an electron in a plane-wave electromagnetic field. In this paper we use this m…

hep-ph2021★ 46 cited

Resummation of quantum radiation reaction in plane waves

Greger Torgrimsson

We propose a new approach to obtain the momentum expectation value of an electron in a high-intensity laser, including multiple photon emissions and loops. We find a recursive form…

hep-ex2021★ 204 cited

Conceptual Design Report for the LUXE Experiment

Halina Abramowicz, Uwe Hernandez Acosta, Massimo Altarelli +88

This Conceptual Design Report describes LUXE (Laser Und XFEL Experiment), an experimental campaign that aims to combine the high-quality and high-energy electron beam of the Europe…

hep-ph2020★ 50 cited

Loops and polarization in strong-field QED

Greger Torgrimsson

In a previous paper we showed how higher-order strong-field-QED processes in long laser pulses can be approximated by multiplying sequences of "strong-field Mueller matrices". We o…

hep-ph2020★ 14 cited

Nonlinear photon trident versus double Compton scattering and resummation of one-step terms

Greger Torgrimsson

We study the photon trident process, where an initial photon turns into an electron-positron pair and a final photon under a nonlinear interaction with a strong plane-wave backgrou…

hep-ph2020★ 24 cited

Nonlinear trident in the high-energy limit: Nonlocality, Coulomb field and resummations

Greger Torgrimsson

We study nonlinear trident in laser pulses in the high-energy limit, where the initial electron experiences, in its rest frame, an electromagnetic field strength above Schwinger's…

hep-ph2019★ 28 cited

The trident process in laser pulses

Victor Dinu, Greger Torgrimsson

We study the trident process in laser pulses. We provide exact numerical results for all contributions, including the difficult exchange term. We show that all terms are in general…

hep-ph2019★ 39 cited

Approximating higher-order nonlinear QED processes with first-order building blocks

Victor Dinu, Greger Torgrimsson

Higher-order tree-level processes in strong laser fields, i.e. cascades, are in general extremely difficult to calculate, but in some regimes the dominant contribution comes from a…

hep-ph2019★ 11 cited

Thermally versus dynamically assisted Schwinger pair production

Greger Torgrimsson

We study electron-positron pair production by the combination of a strong, constant electric field and a thermal background. We show that this process is similar to dynamically ass…