Self-trapping of electromagnetic beams in vacuum supported by QED nonlinear effects
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چکیده
At very high radiation field intensities in vacuum, Maxwell equations need to be modified to account for the QED photon-photon interaction. We show that such modified equations support nondiffracting spatial radiation solitons that propagate for very long distances without changing their shapes. These solitons, and the underlying self-focusing and instability effects, should be observable in the near future.
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