2016/12/21 by T. Zh. Esirkepov, Bulanov, S. V., Esirkepov, T. Zh. +10
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics #Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics #Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1701.03349
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The multiple colliding laser pulse concept formulated in Ref. [1] is beneficial for achieving an extremely high amplitude of coherent electromagnetic field. Since the topology of electric and magnetic fields oscillating in time of multiple colliding laser pulses is far from trivial and the radiation friction effects are significant in the high field limit, the dynamics of charged particles interacting with the multiple colliding laser pulses demonstrates remarkable features corresponding to random walk trajectories, limit circles, attractors, regular patterns and Levy flights. Under extremely high intensity conditions the nonlinear dissipation mechanism stabilizes the particle motion resulting in the charged particle trajectory being located within narrow regions and in the occurrence of a new class of regular patterns made by the particle ensembles.