Matter and Radiation at Extremes, Volume. 1, Issue 6, 308(2016)

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

Zheng Gong1, Ronghao Hu1, Yinren Shou1, Bin Qiao1, Chiaer Chen1, Furong Xu1, Xiantu He1, and Xueqing Ya1,2
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  • 1State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, and Key Laboratory of HEDP of the Ministry of Education, CAPT, Peking University, Beijing, 100871,China
  • 2Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, 030006, China
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    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.

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    Zheng Gong, Ronghao Hu, Yinren Shou, Bin Qiao, Chiaer Chen, Furong Xu, Xiantu He, Xueqing Ya. Radiation reaction induced spiral attractors in ultra-intense colliding laser beams[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2016, 1(6): 308

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    Category: Research Article

    Received: Sep. 10, 2016

    Accepted: Oct. 27, 2016

    Published Online: May. 9, 2017

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    DOI:10.1016/j.mre.2016.10.005

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