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

We provide a pedagogical review article on fundamentals and applications of the quantum
dynamics in strong electromagnetic fields in QED and QCD. The fundamentals include the …

Lattice gauge theories, which originated from particle physics in the context of Quantum
Chromodynamics (QCD), provide an important intellectual stimulus to further develop …

I review the origin and properties of electromagnetic fields produced in heavy‐ion collisions.
The field strength immediately after a collision is proportional to the collision energy and …

Due to the interaction of physics and astrophysics we are witnessing in these years a
splendid synthesis of theoretical, experimental and observational results originating from …

Recent advances in laser technology have pushed the frontier of maximum intensity
achieved to about 1022W/cm2 and investigators currently believe even higher intensities …

The mechanisms which give rise to Hawking radiation are revealed by analyzing in detail
pair production in the presence of horizons. In preparation for the black hole problem, three …

In this article, we review recent theoretical works on the Schwinger mechanism of particle
production in external electrical fields. Although the non-perturbative Schwinger mechanism …

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 …

A quantum kinetic equation is derived for the description of pair production in a time-
dependent homogeneous electric field E (t). As a source term, the Schwinger mechanism for …