Schwinger pair production: Explicit Localization of the world-line instanton
High Energy Physics - Theory
2017-10-11 v3
Abstract
We present a simple proof that the imaginary part of the world-line path integral which computes the rate of Schwinger pair production of charged particles in a constant electric field, is given exactly by the semiclassical WKB limit.
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@article{arxiv.1612.05909,
title = {Schwinger pair production: Explicit Localization of the world-line instanton},
author = {James Gordon and Gordon W. Semenoff},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.05909},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
5 pages; corrected typos, added reference