arXiv:hep-ph/0311298·v2·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology
Modulational and filamentational instabilities of two electromagnetic pulses in a radiation background
M. Marklund🇸🇪 · P.K. Shukla🇩🇪 · G. Brodin🇸🇪 · L. Stenflo🇸🇪
Abstract
The nonlinear interaction, due to quantum electrodynamical (QED) effects, between two electromagnetic pulses and a radiation gas is investigated. It is found that the governing equations admit both modulational and filamentational instabilities. The instability growth rates are derived, and the results are discussed.
Comments: 7 pages, version to appear in New J. Phys