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Effective Action and Schwinger Pair Production in Scalar QED

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-05-13 v1

Abstract

Some astrophysical objects are supposed to have very strong electromagnetic fields above the critical strength. Quantum fluctuations due to strong electromagnetic fields modify the Maxwell theory and particularly electric fields make the vacuum unstable against pair production of charged particles. We study the strong field effect such as the effective action and the Schwinger pair production in scalar QED.

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@article{arxiv.0806.2496,
  title  = {Effective Action and Schwinger Pair Production in Scalar QED},
  author = {Sang Pyo Kim and Hyun Kyu Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.2496},
  year   = {2015}
}

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RevTex 6 pages, no figure; Proceedings of APCTP Winter School on Black Hole Astrophysics 2008, Jan 24-29, 2008