The Schwinger effect predicts the quantum field theoretic vacuum is unstable against particle anti-particle production in the presence of a strong electric field. Whether strong QED in high-power lasers, color flux tube breaking in heavy ion collisions, or in Landau-Zener transitions in condensed matter environments, the Schwinger effect plays a prominent role. As a bridge to non-perturbative quantum field theory experimentation, it is of paramount importance to observe the Schwinger effect. And there is an accelerating body of research aimed at achieving the task. Even so, there are few meetings devoted to the Schwinger effect and strong field physics. We hope to provide such an opportunity, potentially facilitating new and groundbreaking threads of research leading to the observation of the Schwinger effect.
Schedule and Online Access
January 18 - 29
Core Time: 16:30-19:15 (JST), 8:30-11:15 (CET)
January 19: Contributed Short Talk Session
January 26: Symposium
The Panasonic Hall at YITP will be available for on-site participants. - On-site participation has been cancelled due to Kyoto area COVID-19 emergency warning -
All talks to be held on Zoom, registered participants will be provided access.
Remo and Slack will also be used for discussions.
Topics
Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
Ultra-Peripheral Collisions
Connections to and Effects on Spin and Chirality
Non-Abelian Pair Production
(Pre)Thermalization/Hydrodynamization
High-Power/THz Lasers
Modeling of Lasers, PIC codes, etc.
Backreaction Problem and QED Cascade
Enhancement through Dynamical Optical Profiles
Condensed Matter
Weyl/Dirac Semimetals
Graphene and Semiconductors
Nonlinear Optics
Applications to QFTs and Astrophysics
Core Participants
Antonino Di Piazza (Heidelberg, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics)
François Gelis (IPhT, Saclay)
Takashi Oka (ISSP, U-Tokyo)
Invited Speakers
James Daniel Brandenburg (Brookhaven National Laboratory & Center For Frontiers in Nuclear Science)
Maxim Chernodub (Institut Denis Poisson, Tours, CNRS, France)
Alexander Fedotov (National Research Nuclear University MEPhI)
Kenji Fukushima (The University of Tokyo)
Yoshimasa Hidaka (KEK, Tsukuba)
Tatsuhiko Ikeda (Tokyo U., ISSP)
Anton Ilderton (Plymouth U.)
Felix Karbstein (Helmholtz Inst., Jena and U. Jena)
Sebastian Meuren (SLAC)
Shi Pu (USTC)
Sören Schlichting (Bielefeld U.)
Ralf Schützhold (HZDR, Dresden and Dresden, Tech. U., ITP)
Kazuaki Takasan (UC, Berkeley)
Koichiro Tanaka (Kyoto U.)