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Quantization of magnetic flux and electron-positron pair creation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-06-23 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

An electron-positron pair (ee+e^- e^+) is created in vacuum above a critical electric field strength EcrtE_{crt} which is quite large in the laboratory scale. The photon, thus the field, annihilates in the pair creation process. Here, we question if the pair creation (at E=EcrtE=E_{crt}) introduces a boundary condition in the electromagnetic state, e.g., similar to the one in angular or linear momentum. We show that introduction of such a reasonable condition yields approximately the well-known magnetic flux quanta which normally one obtains using different arguments.

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@article{arxiv.2106.11353,
  title  = {Quantization of magnetic flux and electron-positron pair creation},
  author = {Mehmet Emre Tasgin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.11353},
  year   = {2021}
}

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