We show that the amplitude of electromagnetic memory can be significantly enhanced in comparison to known estimates. In a Lorentz breaking phase of lowered phase velocity of light, there exist critical spacetime directions of memory-source emission along the effective light cone, about which the total memory offset receives order of magnitude increases. The same amplification is already present in the Lorentz preserving case by considering ultrarelativistic memory-source charges. These observations may pave the way for a first observation of the phenomenon of memory and laboratory tests of the concepts of asymptotic symmetries and soft theorems.

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• Classical solutions in field theory
• Gravitational wave sources
• Quantum electrodynamics
• Symmetries
• Lorentz symmetry
• Polarization
• Quantum field theory
• Spacetime symmetries