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We study the electron-positron pair production process in strong background electric fields with spatio-temporal inhomogeneity in the time-dependent Basis Light-front Quantization approach. We calculate the observables such as the invariant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-06 Zhiyu Lei , Bolun Hu , Xingbo Zhao

We compute the effective action for a massive scalar field in (A)dS spacetime using the Euclidean heat kernel method. We highlight that in even-dimensional dS spacetimes, the effective action exhibits a non-trivial imaginary part,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-29 Yu Zhou , Hai-Qing Zhang

Recent observations of gravitational waves from binary mergers of black holes or neutron stars and the rapid development of ultra-intense lasers lead strong field physics to a frontier of new physics in the 21st century. Strong gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-03 Sang Pyo Kim

We first demonstrate theoretically that the computational quantum field theory is equivalent to the quantum kinetic theory for pair creation in a spatially homogeneous and time-dependent electric field, then verify numerically their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-30 Z. L. Li , C. Gong , Y. J. Li

Effective field theory of low-energy exitations-magnons that describes antiferromagnets is mapped into scalar electrodynamics of a charged scalar field interacting with an external electromagnetic potential. In the presence of a constant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-09 T. C. Adorno , S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman

We investigate the effect of a constant magnetic field background on the scalar QED pair production in a four-dimensional de Sitter spacetime ($\dsf$). We have obtained the pair production rate which agrees with the known Schwinger result…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-31 Ehsan Bavarsad , Sang Pyo Kim , Clément Stahl , She-Sheng Xue

The recent developments of high intensity ultra-short laser pulses have raised the hopes of observing Schwinger vacuum pair production which is one of the important non-perturbative phenomena in Quantum electrodynamics (QED). The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Cesim K. Dumlu

We propose a new Sauter-like field model with combinatorial multiple potentials consisting of a deep slow-varying and some shallow fast-varying potentials. The dynamically assisted Sauter-Schwinger effect on the pair production is found by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-12 Lie-Juan Li , Li Wang , Melike Mohamedsedik , Li-Na Hu , Bai-Song Xie

We investigate the impact of the Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly on the nonequilibrium evolution of strong-field quantum electrodynamics (QED) using real-time lattice gauge theory techniques. For field strengths exceeding the Schwinger limit for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-05 Niklas Mueller , Florian Hebenstreit , Jürgen Berges

According to the Schwinger mechanism, a uniform electric field brings about pair productions in vacuum; the relationship between the production rate and the electric field is different, depending on the dimension of the system. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-29 Kazuhiro Yokota , Nobuyuki Imoto

We calculate the effective potential of a strong magnetic field induced by fermions with anomalous magnetic moments which couple to the electromagnetic field in the form of the Pauli interaction. For a uniform magnetic field, we find the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Hyun Kyu Lee , Yongsung Yoon

We semiclassically investigate Schwinger pair production for pulsed rotating electric fields depending on time. To do so we solve the Dirac equation for two-component fields in a WKB-like approximation. The result shows that for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-05 Eckhard Strobel , She-Sheng Xue

Electron-positron pair production in oscillating electric fields is investigated in the nonperturbative threshold regime. Accurate numerical solutions of quantum kinetic theory for corresponding observables are presented and analyzed in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-13 Christian Kohlfürst , Holger Gies , Reinhard Alkofer

Probabilities of a pair of fermions and bosons creation in a static and spatially uniform electric field E are represented in the Schwinger formulas by infinite series. It is believed that in weak fields the main contribution to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-08 B. B. Levchenko

The overcritical regime of axion-electrodynamics (AED) is investigated. For magnetic fields larger than the characteristic scale linked to AED, quantum vacuum fluctuations due to axion-like fields can dominate over those associated with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-18 Selym Villalba-Chávez , Anatoly E. Shabad , Carsten Müller

It is a long-standing non-trivial prediction of quantum electrodynamics that its vacuum is unstable in the background of a static, spatially uniform electric field and, in principle, sparks with spontaneous emission of electron-positron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-03 Anthony Hartin , Andreas Ringwald , Natalia Tapia

Researches on the electron-positron pair production in the presence of the intense laser field are reviewed, motivated by the theoretical importance of the nonperturbative QED problem and the worldwide development of the strong laser…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Huayu Hu

In this proceeding we consider a massive charged scalar field in a uniform electric field background in a de~Sitter spacetime (dS). We compute the in-vacuum expectation value of the trace of the energy-momentum tensor for the created…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-23 Ehsan Bavarsad , Sang Pyo Kim , Clément Stahl , She-Sheng Xue

To reveal the Schwinger effect for quarks, i.e., pair creation process of quarks and antiquarks, we derive the vacuum decay rate at strong coupling using AdS/CFT correspondence. Magnetic fields, in addition to the electric field responsible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Koji Hashimoto , Takashi Oka , Akihiko Sonoda

Electron-positron pairs can be produced via the Schwinger mechanism in the presence of strong electric fields. In particular, the fields involved in $\alpha$ decay and nuclear fission are strong enough to produce them. The energy of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-12 Thomas Settlemyre , Hua Zheng , Aldo Bonasera