Formulation of the Schwinger mechanism in classical statistical field theory
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2013-08-09 v4 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
In this paper, we show how classical statistical field theory techniques can be used to efficiently perform the numerical evaluation of the non-perturbative Schwinger mechanism of particle production by quantum tunneling. In some approximation, we also consider the back-reaction of the produced particles on the external field, as well as the self-interactions of the produced particles.
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@article{arxiv.1303.4633,
title = {Formulation of the Schwinger mechanism in classical statistical field theory},
author = {F. Gelis and N. Tanji},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.4633},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
28 pages, 28 pdf figures; title changed, to appear in Phys.Rev.D