Parametric co-linear axion photon instability. (English) Zbl 1520.81177
Summary: Axions and axion-like particles generically couple to QED via the axion-photon-photon interaction. This leads to a modification of Maxwell’s equations known in the literature as axion-electrodynamics. The new form of Maxwell’s equations gives rise to a new parametric instability in which a strong pump decays into a scattered light wave and an axion. This axion mode grows exponentially in time and leads to a change in the polarisation of the initial laser beam, therefore providing a signal for detection. Currently operating laser systems can put bounds on the axion parameter space, however longer pulselengths are necessary to reach the current best laboratory bounds of light-shining through wall experiments.
MSC:
| 81V25 | Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory |
| 81V80 | Quantum optics |
| 81V10 | Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics |
| 35Q61 | Maxwell equations |
| 14D15 | Formal methods and deformations in algebraic geometry |
| 70K50 | Bifurcations and instability for nonlinear problems in mechanics |
| 78A45 | Diffraction, scattering |
| 78A60 | Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics |
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