Photon polarization tensor in circularly polarized Hermite- and Laguerre-Gaussian beams

DOI10.1142/S021773231850044XMaRDI QIDQ4608740zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Felix Karbstein, Elena Mosman

Publication date 23 March 2018

Published in Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.08898

zbMATH Keywords

laser fieldsquantum electrodynamics (QED)strong field QED

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

Abstract: We derive analytical expressions for the photon polarization tensor in circularly polarized Hermite- and Laguerre-Gaussian beams, complementing the corresponding results for linearly polarized beams obtained recently. As they are based upon a locally constant field approximation of the one-loop Heisenberg-Euler effective Lagrangian for quantum electrodynamics (QED) in constant fields, our results are generically limited to slowly varying electromagnetic fields, varying on spatial (temporal) scales much larger than the Compton wavelength (time) of the electron.

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