Electromagnetic solitons in quantum vacuum

Year: 2020

Authors: Bulanov S. V; Sasorov P. V; Pegoraro F.; Kadlecova H.; Bulanov S. S.; Esirkepov T. Zh; Rosanov N. N.; Korn G.

Autors Affiliation: ASCR, ELI Beamlines Project, Inst Phys, Slovance 2, Prague 18221, Czech Republic; Natl Inst Quantum & Radiol Sci & Technol QST, Kansai Photon Sci Inst, 8-1-7 Umemidai, Kyoto 6190215, Japan; Russian Acad Sci, Prokhorov Gen Phys Inst, Vavilov Str 38, Moscow 119991, Russia; Keldysh Inst Appl Math, Moscow 125047, Russia; Univ Pisa, Enrico Fermi Dept Phys, Pisa, Italy; CNR, Natl Inst Opt, Via G Moruzzi 1, I-56124 Pisa, Italy; Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA; Vavilov State Opt Inst, Kadetskaya Liniya 5-2, St Petersburg 199053, Russia; Univ ITMO, Kronverkskii Prospect 49, St Petersburg 197101, Russia; Ioffe Phys Tech Inst, Politekhn Skaya Ul 26, St Petersburg 194021, Russia.

Abstract: In the limit of extremely intense electromagnetic fields the Maxwell equations are modified due to the photon-photon scattering that makes the vacuum refraction index depend on the field amplitude. In the presence of electromagnetic waves with small but finite wave numbers the vacuum behaves as a dispersive medium. We show that the interplay between the vacuum polarization and the nonlinear effects in the interaction of counter-propagating electromagnetic waves can result in the formation of Kadomtsev-Petviashvily solitons and, in one-dimension configuration, of Korteveg-de-Vries type solitons that can propagate over a large distance without changing their shape.

Journal/Review: PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Volume: 101 (1)      Pages from: 016016  to:

More Information: The work is supported by the project High Field Initiative (CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/15_003/0000449) from the European Regional Development Fund, by the Program of Russian Academy of Sciences “Mathematics and Nonlinear Dynamics”. H. K. was supported by the fellowship (award) Czech edition of L´Oreal UNESCO For Women In Science 2019. S. S. B. acknowledges support from the Office of Science of the U.S. DOE under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.
KeyWords: Laser plasma interaction
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.101.016016

Citations: 14
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