Relativistic Nonlinear Electrodynamics: The QED Vacuum and Matter in Super-Strong Radiation Fields (Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics Book 88)

This revised edition of the author’s classic 2006 text offers a comprehensively updated review of the field of relativistic nonlinear electrodynamics. It explores the interaction of strong and super-strong electromagnetic/laser radiation with the electromagnetic quantum vacuum and diverse types of matter – including free charged particles and antiparticles, acceleration beams, plasma and plasmous media. The appearance of laser sources of relativistic and ultra-relativistic intensities over the last decade has stimulated investigation of a large class of processes under such super-strong radiation fields. Revisions for this second edition reflect these developments and the book includes new chapters on Bremsstrahlung and nonlinear absorption of superintense radiation in plasmas, the nonlinear interaction of relativistic atoms with intense laser radiation, nonlinear interaction of strong laser radiation with Graphene, and relativistic nonlinear phenomena in solid-plasma targets under supershort laser pulses of ultrarelativistic intensities. The only book devoted to the subject of relativistic nonlinear electrodynamics, this second edition will be a valuable resource for graduate students and researchers involved in any aspect of the field, including those working with intense x-ray – gamma-ray lasers, the new generation of small size laser-plasma accelerators of superhigh energies and high-brightness particle beams. This revised edition of the authorĺls classic 2006 text offers a comprehensively updated review of the field of relativistic nonlinear℗lelectrodynamics. It explores the interaction of strong and super-strong electromagnetic/laser radiation with the electromagnetic quantum vacuum and diverse types of matter ĺl including free charged particles and antiparticles, acceleration beams, plasma and plasmous media.℗l The appearance of laser sources of relativistic and ultra-relativistic intensities over the last decade has stimulated investigation of a large class of processes under such super-strong radiation fields. Revisions for this second edition reflect these developments and the book includes new chapters on Bremsstrahlung and nonlinear absorption of superintense radiation in plasmas, the nonlinear interaction of relativistic atoms with intense laser radiation, nonlinear interaction of strong laser radiation with Graphene, and relativistic nonlinear phenomena in solid-plasma targets under supershort laser pulses of ultrarelativistic intensities. The only book devoted to the subject of relativistic nonlinear electrodynamics, this second edition will be a valuable resource for℗lgraduate students and researchers involved in any aspect of the field, including those working with intense x-ray ĺl gamma-ray lasers, the new generation of small size laser-plasma accelerators of superhigh energies and high-brightness particle beams Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Interaction of a Charged Particle with Strong Plane Electromagnetic Wave in Vacuum....Pages 1-33 Interaction of Charged Particles with Strong Electromagnetic Wave in Dielectric Media. Induced Nonlinear Cherenkov Process....Pages 35-68 Quantum Theory of Induced Multiphoton Cherenkov Process....Pages 69-96 Cyclotron Resonance at the Particle–Strong Wave Interaction....Pages 97-127 Nonlinear Dynamics of Induced Compton and Undulator Processes....Pages 129-160 Induced Nonstationary Transition Process....Pages 161-191 Induced Channeling Process in a Crystal....Pages 193-220 Nonlinear Mechanisms of Free Electron Laser....Pages 221-271 Electron–Positron Pair Production in Superstrong Laser Fields....Pages 273-307 Relativistic Quantum Theory of Scattering on Arbitrary Electrostatic Potential and Stimulated Bremsstrahlung....Pages 309-347 Interaction of Strong Laser Radiation with Highly Charged Atoms-Ions....Pages 349-387 Interaction of Superstrong Laser Radiation with Plasma....Pages 389-422 High Harmonic Generation and Coherent X-Ray– \(\gamma \) -Ray Radiation in Relativistic Atomic-Ionic Systems....Pages 423-461 “Relativistic” Nonlinear Electromagnetic Processes in Graphene....Pages 463-499 Back Matter....Pages 501-506