2004/10/19 by Mattias Marklund, P. K. Shukla, Padma K. Shukla +7
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Molecular Physics #Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics #Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph) #physics.plasm-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/0410139
12th International Congress on Plasma Physics, 25-29 October 2004, Nice (France)
openalex publication_date 2004/10/19 · arxiv created 2005/01/12 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We predict the existence of new nonlinear electromagnetic wave modes in pair plasmas. The plasma may be either non-magnetized or immersed in an external magnetic field. The existence of these modes depends on the interaction of an intense circularly polarized electromagnetic wave with a plasma, where the nonlinear quantum vacuum effects are taken into account. This gives rise to new couplings between matter and radiation. We focus on pair plasmas, since the new modes are expected to exist in highly energetic environments, such as pulsar magnetospheres and the next generation of laser--plasma systems.