Stimulated vacuum emission and photon absorption in strong electromagnetic fields

Vacuum birefringence in strong inhomogeneous electromagnetic fields

Kinetics of Vacuum Pair Creation in Strong Electromagnetic Fields

We study vacuum particle antiparticle pair production under action of a strong time dependent space homogeneous electric field at the presence of a constant magnetic field. The kinetic equation for fermions and bosons was derived in the framework of the Schwinger mechanism of vacuum tunnelling. We show the enhancement of pair production for fermions (suppression for bosons) with the increasing ...

Frequency-upconverted stimulated emission by simultaneous five-photon absorption

Since the invention of the laser in 1960, multiphoton effects have become useful in techniques for real applications as well as conceptual predictions. Here, we report the first experimental observation of frequency-upconverted stimulated emission from a novel fluorophore through simultaneous five-photon absorption. Compared to lower-order nonlinear absorption, the fifth-order dependence on inp...

Electromagnetic Fields in the Qcd Vacuum

Quarks play an active role in shaping the QCD vacuum structure. Being dual carriers of both ‘color’ and ‘electric’ charges they also respond to externally applied electromagnetic fields. Thus, in principle, the vacuum of strong interactions influences higher order QED processes such as photon-photon scattering. We survey here the current status of the understanding of the vacuum structure of st...

Electromagnetic Shocks in Strong Magnetic Fields

The nonlinear properties of electromagnetic waves traveling through a magnetized vacuum is of particular interest in the study of neutron stars. Heisenberg and Euler [1] and Weisskopf [2] first derived nonlinear corrections to the Maxwell equations of the electromagnetic field. Lutzky and Toll [3] and Zheleznyakov and Fabrikant [4] applied the weak-field expansion to show that shock waves can d...