Radiation reaction induced spiral attractors in ultra-intense colliding laser beams

Gong Zheng; Hu Ronghao; Shou Yinren; Qiao Bin; Chen Chiaer; Xu Furong; He Xiantu; Yan Xueqing

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Gong Zheng, Hu Ronghao, Shou Yinren, Qiao Bin, Chen Chiaer, Xu Furong, He Xiantu, Yan Xueqing. Radiation reaction induced spiral attractors in ultra-intense colliding laser beams[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2016, 1(6). doi: 10.1016/j.mre.2016.10.005

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Gong Zheng, Hu Ronghao, Shou Yinren, Qiao Bin, Chen Chiaer, Xu Furong, He Xiantu, Yan Xueqing. Radiation reaction induced spiral attractors in ultra-intense colliding laser beams[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2016, 1(6). doi: 10.1016/j.mre.2016.10.005

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Gong Zheng, Hu Ronghao, Shou Yinren, Qiao Bin, Chen Chiaer, Xu Furong, He Xiantu, Yan Xueqing. Radiation reaction induced spiral attractors in ultra-intense colliding laser beams[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2016, 1(6). doi: 10.1016/j.mre.2016.10.005

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Radiation reaction induced spiral attractors in ultra-intense colliding laser beams

doi: 10.1016/j.mre.2016.10.005

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aState Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, and Key Laboratory of HEDP of the Ministry of Education, CAPT, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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bCollaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China

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Corresponding author: *Corresponding author. State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, and Key Laboratory of HEDP of the Ministry of Education, CAPT, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China. E-mail address: x.yan@pku.edu.cn (X.Q. Yan).
Received Date: 2016-09-10
Accepted Date: 2016-10-27

Available Online: 2021-12-07

Publish Date: 2015-11-15

Abstract

Abstract

The radiation reaction effects on electron dynamics in counter-propagating circularly polarized laser beams are investigated through the linearization theorem and the results are in great agreement with numeric solutions. For the first time, the properties of fixed points in electron phase-space were analyzed with linear stability theory, showing that center nodes will become attractors if the classical radiation reaction is considered. Electron dynamics are significantly affected by the properties of the fixed points and the electron phase-space densities are found to be increasing exponentially near the attractors. The density growth rates are derived theoretically and further verified by particle-in-cell simulations, which can be detected in experiments to explore the effects of radiation reaction qualitatively. The attractor can also facilitate realizing a series of nanometer-scaled flying electron slices via adjusting the colliding laser frequencies.
- Radiation reaction effect,
- Phase space dynamics,
- PIC simulation

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