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Profiles
Dr Tom Heinzl
Associate Professor in Theoretical Physics
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Role
Member of subject group mathematics leading team
Member of workload coordination team
Exams coordinator
Qualifications
Qualifications
- Diploma in Theoretical Physics (1988)
- PhD in Theoretical Physics (1992)
- Habilitation (DSc) in Theoretical Physics (1998)
- American Physical Society (APS): Outstanding Referee (2011)
- Physics Letters B: Most Valued Reviewer (2013)
- Editor-in-Chief Choice Award 2016 for article: Measuring vacuum polarization with high-power lasers, High Power Laser Science and Engineering 4, e5 (2016) (with Ben King).
- APS journals - editor's choice articles:
- Exact classical and quantum dynamics in background electromagnetic fields, Physical Review Letters 118, 113202 (2017) (with A. Ilderton).
- Mode truncations and scattering in strong fields, Physical Review D 98, 016002 (2018) (with A. Ilderton and D. Seipt)
Professional membership
German Physical Society
Roles on external bodies
- Member of User Forum, Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL)
- Member of Vulcan 20 Petawatt Project (theory)
- Member of HIBEF user consortium (Helmholtz International Beamline for Extreme Fields)
- Member of planned LUXE experiment (DESY, Hamburg)
- Peer reviewer for many international Physics journals:
- Annalen der Physik
- Annals of Physics
- European Physical Journal C
- Europhysics Letters
- Few Body Systems
- High Power Laser Science and Engineering
- JHEP
- Journal of Physics A, B, G
- Journal of Plasma Physics
- Nature - Scientific Reports
- Nature Physics
- New Journal of Physics
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A
- Optics Letters
- Physical Review A, D, E, X
- Physical Review Letters
- Physica Scripta
- Physics Letters A, B
- Referee for Research Councils and Funding Bodies:
- Austrian Foundation for the Promotion of Science
- Czech Science Foundation
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
- French National Research Agency (ANR)
- German Research Foundation (DFG)
- Humboldt Foundation, Germany
- Helmholtz Society, Germany
- National Research Foundation, South Africa
- The Royal Society, UK
Teaching interests
- Theoretical Physics
- Quantum Field Theory
- Applied Mathematics for mathematicians, engineers and scientists
- Statistical Methods
Research interests
- Laser Particle Physics
- Relativistic Laser Matter Interactions
- Physics of Strong Interactions
- (Light Cone) Quantum Field Theory
- Gauge Theories
Research degrees awarded to supervised students
- 10 physics diploma students (co-supervision, Germany)
- 5 PhD students (co-supervision, Germany and France)
- 3 PhD students, UoP, 2010, 2013, 2019
Grants & contracts
- Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant (2016-18) for Dr Anton Ilderton (Awarded £ 131 k)
- Leverhulme grant (2019-22) with Dr Anton Ilderton (Awarded £ 122 k)
For an updated list of my publications please follow the link to Google Scholar. Alternatively, check INSPIRE, the high energy physics information system. Publications since 1992 may be downloaded via these sites.
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2018
'Superintegrable relativistic systems in scalar background fields'
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
PEARL
2017
'Superintegrable relativistic systems in spacetime-dependent background
fields'
Journal of Physcis A: Mathematical and Theoretical
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'Exact Classical and Quantum Dynamics in Background Electromagnetic Fields'
Physical Review Letters
118,
(11)
, DOI
PEARL
2016
'Detecting vacuum birefringence with x-ray free electron lasers and high-power optical lasers: a feasibility study'
Physica Scripta
91,
(2)
023010-023010
, DOI
2016
'Classical and quantum particle dynamics in univariate background fields'
Physical Review D
94,
065039-065039
PEARL
2016
'Measuring vacuum polarization with high-power lasers'
High Power Laser Science and Engineering
4,
e5-e5
PEARL
2015
'Detecting radiation reaction at moderate laser intensities'
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys
91,
(2)
, DOI
PEARL
2014
'Photon polarization in light-by-light scattering: Finite size effects'
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
90,
(4)
, DOI
PEARL
2014
'Vacuum refractive indices and helicity flip in strong-field QED'
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
89,
(12)
, DOI
PEARL
2014
'Light-front quantum chromodynamics'
Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements
251-252,
165-174
, DOI
PEARL
2012
'Intensity-Dependent Electron Mass Shift in a Laser Field: Existence, Universality, and Detection'
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
109,
(10)
, DOI
PEARL
2012
'STRONG-FIELD QED AND HIGH-POWER LASERS'
International Journal of Modern Physics A
27,
(15)
1260010-1260010
, DOI
PEARL
2011
'Symmetry breaking from radiation reaction in ultra-intense laser fields'
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
84,
(11)
, DOI
PEARL
2011
'Effective Lattice Actions for Finite-Temperature Yang-Mills Theory'
arXiv
2011
'Covariant worldline numerics for charge motion with radiation reaction'
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
83,
(7)
, DOI
2010
'Pair production in laser fields: finite size effects'
PoS LC
2010,
007-007
2010
'Finite size effects in stimulated laser pair production'
Physics Letters B
692,
(4)
250-256
Publisher Site
, DOI
2009
'Joint IPPP Durham/Cockcroft Institute/ICFA Workshop on Advanced QED methods for Future Accelerators'
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
198,
011001-011001
, DOI
Conference Papers
2010
'First results from the Daresbury Compton backscattering x-ray source (COBALD)'
SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications
SPIE
, DOI
2009
'Infra-red problems and a response'
2008
'Solution of the Gribov problem from gauge invariance'
2007
'Laser-accelerated rays and radiation sources at the FZD'
17-44
2007
'ZZ<inf>3</inf> Polyakov loop models and inverse Monte-Carlo methods'
2002
'An effective theory for the SU(2) mass gap?'
83-90
2000
'The light-cone wavefunction of the pion'
231-234
1999
'Causality in light-cone field theory'
246-251
1991
'NONTRIVIAL VACUUM-STRUCTURE IN LIGHT-CONE QUANTUM-FIELD THEORY'
C429-C434
Reports
Reports & invited lectures
39th Schladming Winter School "Methods of Quantization", Lectures on "Light-Cone Quantisation: Foundations and Applications", Schladming, Styria, 2000. Published as Springer Lecture Notes, Vol. 572.
Workshop on Lasers and Accelerators, STIAS, Stellenbosch, South Africa, January 2009, Lectures on "Strong-Field QED".
25th Chris Engelbrecht Summer School on "Nonlinear Phenomena in Quantum Field Theory", Stellenbosch, South Africa, January 2014, Lectures on Nonlinear QED.