When considering quantum processes rendered by copious absorptions of soft photons like the non-linear Compton scattering, it is common to postulate the strong-field interaction regime. However, upon closer examination this `strong-field regime' falls into several sub-regimes. They are conditional on invariant parameters such as the non-linearity parameter $a_0$ proportional to the field amplitude, and the dynamical quantum parameter $\chi$, which denotes the field amplitude experienced by a particle in its reference frame in the units of the critical (Schwinger) field of QED $E_S=m^2c^3/e\hbar$ (here, $m$ and $-e$ are the electron mass and charge) [1].
An electron injected into a strong field with high $a_0 >> 1$ rapidly become ultra-relativistic and can emit strong radiation, and at $\chi > 1$ the emission process is essentially quantum. In this regime, radiation dominates particle dynamics, and production of new electron-positron pairs by hard photons in a strong field becomes important. This can reveal, for example, in QED cascades [1], which in some cases can be sustained by the field leading to abundant production of pairs [2,3].
The Furry picture, which is at the core of the strong-field QED approach, allows building the perturbative scattering theory in a strong external electromagnetic field that is accounted for exactly. Under the so-called locally constant field approximation (LCFA) for processes involving relativistic particles in transverse fields, the model of a uniform constant crossed field (CCF) appears to be universal, and at the same time allows analytical treatment for many processes.
At very high $\chi >> 1$, the loop contributions to scattering amplitudes (so-called polarisation and mass operators) in a CCF grow surprisingly fast, namely, as a power of the field strength and particle energy entering the parameter $g = \alpha\chi^{2/3}$. As was initially conjectured by Narozhny [4], and later confirmed by our all-order calculation [5], $g^n$ factors the leading-type n-th loop contributions in the perturbation expansion, meaning that at $g>1$ the Furry expansion breaks down and renders the new fully non-perturbative regime of strong-field QED. Strikingly, this regime arises at scales that could be feasible in future experiments.
In this talk, we review the above mentioned regimes of strong-field QED, the related theoretical framework, and the connection to possible future experiments.
[1] A. Fedotov, A. Ilderton, F. Karbstein, B. King, D. Seipt, H. Taya, and G. Torgrimsson, Phys. Rep. 1010, 1 (2023).
[2] A. R. Bell and J. G. Kirk, PRL 101, 200403 (2008).
[3] A. Mercuri-Baron, A.A, Mironov, C. Riconda, A. Grassi, M. Grech, arXiv:2402.04225 (2024).
[4] N. B. Narozhny, Expansion parameter of perturbation theory in intense-field quantum electrodynamics, Physical Review D 21, 1176 (1980).
[5] A. A. Mironov, S. Meuren, and A. M. Fedotov, PRD 102, 053005 (2020); A. A. Mironov and A. M. Fedotov, PRD 105, 033005 (2022).

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.Nucl-PhysB.2024.116695
http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15182

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