[HTML][HTML] Advances in QED with intense background fields

A Fedotov, A Ilderton, F Karbstein, B King, D Seipt… - Physics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
Upcoming and planned experiments combining increasingly intense lasers and energetic
particle beams will access new regimes of nonlinear, relativistic, quantum effects. This …

Chirality production with mass effects—Schwinger pair production and the axial Ward identity

P Copinger, S Pu - International Journal of Modern Physics A, 2020 - World Scientific
The anomalous generation of chirality with mass effects via the axial Ward identity and its
dependence on the Schwinger mechanism is reviewed, utilizing parity violating …

Optical emission of graphene and electron-hole pair production induced by a strong terahertz field

IV Oladyshkin, SB Bodrov, YA Sergeev, AI Korytin… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
We report on experimental observation of optical emission of graphene induced by an
intense terahertz (THz) pulse. P-doped chemical-vapor-deposition graphene with an initial …

Second harmonic generation in graphene dressed by a strong terahertz field

M Tokman, SB Bodrov, YA Sergeev, AI Korytin… - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
We observe enhanced second harmonic generation in monolayer graphene in the presence
of an ultrastrong terahertz field pulse of picosecond duration with a peak amplitude of 250 …

Exactly solvable cases in QED with t-electric potential steps

TC Adorno, SP Gavrilov, DM Gitman - International Journal of …, 2017 - World Scientific
In this paper, we present in detail consistent QED (and scalar QED) calculations of particle
creation effects in external electromagnetic field that correspond to three most important …

Vacuum instability in time-dependent electric fields: New example of an exactly solvable case

AI Breev, SP Gavrilov, DM Gitman, AA Shishmarev - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
A new exactly solvable case in strong-field quantum electrodynamics with a time-dependent
external electric field is presented. The corresponding field is given by one component of the …

Vacuum instability in slowly varying electric fields

SP Gavrilov, DM Gitman - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
Nonperturbative methods have been well developed for QED with the so-called t-electric
potential steps. In this case a calculation technique is based on the existence of specific …

Direct measurement of a beta function and an indirect check of the Schwinger effect near the boundary in Dirac semimetals

MN Chernodub, MAH Vozmediano - Physical Review Research, 2019 - APS
The electric field inside typical conductors drops down exponentially with the screening
length determined by an intrinsic length scale of the system such as the density of mobile …

Nonequilibrium transport in the pseudospin-1 Dirac-Weyl system

CZ Wang, HY Xu, L Huang, YC Lai - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
Recently, solid state materials hosting pseudospin-1 quasiparticles have attracted a great
deal of attention. In these materials, the energy band contains a pair of Dirac cones and a …

Particle creation by peak electric field

TC Adorno, SP Gavrilov, DM Gitman - The European Physical Journal C, 2016 - Springer
The particle creation by the so-called peak electric field is considered. The latter field is a
combination of two exponential parts, one exponentially increasing and another …