Quantum vacuum fluctuations illuminated by new computational technique
27 Jun 2025
Colliding light Illustration of photon–photon scattering. Two green petawatt lasers beams collide at the focus. A third red beam polarizes the quantum vacuum. This allows a fourth blue laser beam to be generated, with a unique direction and colour. (Courtesy: Zixin (Lily) Zhang)
A computational paradigm that can accurately simulate interactions between powerful laser beams and
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