A new electromagnetic wave in a pair plasma
Lennart Stenflo, Gert Brodin, Mattias Marklund, Padma K. Shukla
Abstract
A new nonlinear electromagnetic wave mode in a plasma is reported. Its existence depends on the interaction of an intense circularly polarized electromagnetic wave with a plasma, where quantum electrodynamical photon--photon scattering is taken into account. As an illustration, we consider a pair plasma and show that the new mode can be significant in astrophysical settings and in the next generation laser-plasma systems.
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