Doubly assisted Sauter-Schwinger effect
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-10-21 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Quantum Physics
Abstract
We study electron-positron pair creation by a strong and slowly varying electric field, assisted by a weaker and more rapidly changing field (e.g., in the keV regime) plus an additional high-energy (say MeV) photon. It turns out that this combination can yield a pair creation probability which is exponentially larger than in the case where one (or more) of the three ingredients is missing. Apart from a deeper understanding of these non-perturbative phenomena, this double enhancement may pave the way for an experimental verification of this fundamental prediction.
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@article{arxiv.1607.02448,
title = {Doubly assisted Sauter-Schwinger effect},
author = {Greger Torgrimsson and Johannes Oertel and Ralf Schützhold},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.02448},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
5 pages. Version 2: reference and figures added