VACUUM BIREFRINGENCE AND DICHROISM IN A STRONG PLANE-WAVE BACKGROUND

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In the present study, we consider the effects of vacuum birefringence and dichroism in strong electromagnetic fields. According to quantum electrodynamics, the vacuum state exhibits different refractive properties depending on the probe photon polarization and one also obtains different probabilities of the photon decay via production of electron-positron pairs. Here we investigate these two phenomena by means of several different approaches to computing the polarization operator. The external field is assumed to be a linearly polarized plane electromagnetic wave of arbitrary amplitude and frequency. Varying the probe-photon energy and the field parameters, we thoroughly examine the validity of the locally-constant field approximation (LCFA) and techniques involving perturbative expansions in terms of the external-field amplitude. Within the latter approach, we develop a numerical method based on a direct evaluation of the weak-field Feynman diagrams, which can be employed for investigating more complex external backgrounds. The polarization operator depends on two parameters: classical nonlinearity parameter ξ and the product η = ωq0/m2 of the laser field frequency ω and the photon energy q0 (m is the electron mass). The domains of validity of the approximate techniques in the ξη plane are explicitly identified.

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I. Aleksandrov

Saint Petersburg State University; Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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Email: i.aleksandrov@spbu.ru
Saint Petersburg, Russia; Saint Petersburg, Russia

V. Shabaev

Saint Petersburg State University; National Research Centre «Kurchatov Institute», B. P. Konstantinov Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: i.aleksandrov@spbu.ru
Saint Petersburg, Russia; Gatchina, Russia

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