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MO: Fachverband Molekülphysik

MO 5: Interaction with Strong or Short Laser Pulses I (joint session A/MO)

MO 5.7: Talk

Tuesday, March 12, 2024, 12:45–13:00, HS 1010

Nonspreading relativistic electron wavepacket in a strong laser field — •Andre G. Campos, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan, and Christoph H. Keitel — Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics

A solution of the Dirac equation in a strong laser field presenting a nonspreading wave packet in the rest frame of the electron is derived. It consists of a generalization of the self-accelerating free electron wave packet [Kaminer et al. Nature Phys. 11, 261 (2015)] to the case with the background of a strong laser field. Built upon the notion of nonspreading for an extended relativistic wavepacket, the concept of Born rigidity for accelerated motion in relativity is the key ingredient of the solution. At its core, the solution comes from the connection between the self-accelerated free electron wave packet and the eigenstate of a Dirac electron in a constant and homogeneous gravitational field via the equivalence principle. The solution is an essential step towards the realization of the laser-driven relativistic collider [Meuren et al. PRL 114, 143201 (2015)], where the large spreading of a common Gaussian wave packet during the excursion in a strong laser field strongly limits the expectable yields.

Keywords: Dirac equation; strong laser fields; Born rigidity; Bell's paradox