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Vacuum instability in external fields

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-18 v1

Abstract

We study particles creation in arbitrary space-time dimensions by external electric fields, in particular, by fields, which are acting for a finite time. The time and dimensional analysis of the vacuum instability is presented. It is shown that the distributions of particles created by quasiconstant electric fields can be written in a form which has a thermal character and seems to be universal. Its application, for example, to the particles creation in external constant gravitational field reproduces the Hawking temperature exactly.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9603152,
  title  = {Vacuum instability in external fields},
  author = {S. P. Gavrilov and D. M. Gitman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9603152},
  year   = {2014}
}

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36 pages, LaTeX