Measuring vacuum polarization with high-power lasers

By B. King, T. Heinzl. High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 2015

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When exposed to intense electromagnetic fields, the quantum vacuum is expected to exhibit properties of a polarizable medium akin to a weakly nonlinear dielectric material. Various schemes have been proposed to measure such vacuum polarization effects using a combination of high- power lasers. Motivated by several planned experiments, we provide an overview of experimental signatures that have been suggested to confirm this prediction of quantum electrodynamics of real photon–photon scattering.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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