Upcoming and planned experiments combining increasingly intense lasers and energetic
particle beams will access new regimes of nonlinear, relativistic, quantum effects. This …

The dynamics of charged particles in electromagnetic fields is an essential component of
understanding the most extreme environments in our Universe. In electromagnetic fields of …

High‐power laser sources are widely used in industrial precision processing and act as a
new platform for strong‐field physics research using peak power over petawatt. This review …

Plasma-based accelerators use the strong electromagnetic fields that can be supported by
plasmas to accelerate charged particles to high energies. Accelerating field structures in …

We review common extensions of particle-in-cell (PIC) schemes which account for strong
field phenomena in laser-plasma interactions. After describing the physical processes of …

Charged particles accelerated by electromagnetic fields emit radiation, which must, by the
conservation of momentum, exert a recoil on the emitting particle. The force of this recoil …

Spin polarization of an ultrarelativistic electron beam head-on colliding with an ultraintense
laser pulse is investigated in the quantum radiation-dominated regime. We develop a Monte …

Since the invention of chirped pulse amplification, which was recognized by a Nobel Prize in
physics in 2018, there has been a continuing increase in available laser intensity. Combined …

A model for laser light absorption in electron–positron plasmas self-consistently created via
QED cascades is described. The laser energy is mainly absorbed due to hard photon …

Exploring vacuum birefringence with the station of extreme light at Shanghai Coherent Light
Facility is considered. Laser pulses of intensity beyond 10 23 W cm− 2 are capable of …