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

The dynamics of charged particles in electromagnetic fields is an essential component of
understanding the most extreme environments in our Universe. In electromagnetic fields of …

The field of laser-matter interaction traditionally deals with the response of atoms, molecules,
and plasmas to an external light wave. However, the recent sustained technological …

The controlled coupling of a laser to plasma has the potential to address grand scientific
challenges,,,,–, but many applications have limited flexibility and poor control over the laser …

In simulations of a 10 PW laser striking a solid, we demonstrate the possibility of producing a
pure electron-positron plasma by the same processes as those thought to operate in high …

Since the invention of chirped pulse amplification, which was recognized by a Nobel Prize in
physics in 2018, there has been a continuing increase in available laser intensity. Combined …

Recently, much attention has been attracted to the problem of limitations on the attainable
intensity of high power lasers [AM Fedotov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 080402 (2010) PRLTAO …

The results of Monte-Carlo simulations of electron-positron-photon cascades initiated by
slow electrons in circularly polarized fields of ultrahigh strength are presented and …

A model for laser light absorption in electron–positron plasmas self-consistently created via
QED cascades is described. The laser energy is mainly absorbed due to hard photon …

We show that it is not possible to concentrate enough light to precipitate the formation of an
event horizon. We argue that the dissipative quantum effects coming from the self-interaction …