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NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
Volume 18, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/18/7/072001
Keywords
radiation friction; inverse Faraday effect; laser-plasma interactions; magnetic field generation in plasmas; high field physics
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- John von Neumann-Institut fur Computing (Research Center Julich) [HRO01]
- Russian Science Foundation [16-11-10028]
- MEPhI Academic Excellence Project [02.a03.21.0005]
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [16-02-00936]
- Russian Science Foundation [16-11-10028] Funding Source: Russian Science Foundation
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A collective, macroscopic signature to detect radiation friction in laser-plasma experiments is proposed. In the interaction of superintense circularly polarized laser pulses with high density targets, the effective dissipation due to radiative losses allows the absorption of electromagnetic angular momentum, which in turn leads to the generation of a quasistatic axial magnetic field. This peculiar ` inverse Faraday effect' is investigated by analytical modeling and three-dimensional simulations, showing that multi-gigagauss magnetic fields may be generated at laser intensities > 10(23) W cm(-2).
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