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The effect of the electric field on the creation of spin 1/2 particles from vacuum in the (1+1) dimensional de-Sitter space-time is studied. The Dirac equation with a constant electric field is solved by introducing an unitary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-01 S. Haouat , R. Chekireb

We investigate electron-positron pair creation from the vacuum in a pulsed electric background field. Employing the Sauter-type pulsed field $E(t)=E_0 {\rm sech}^2 (t/\tau)$ with height $E_0$ and width $\tau$, we demonstrate explicitly the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-30 Hidetoshi Taya , Hirotsugu Fujii , Kazunori Itakura

We consider the particle-antiparticle pairs produced by both a strong electric field and de Sitter curvature. We investigate in 1 + 1 D the backreaction of the pairs on the electromagnetic field. To do so we describe the canonical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-15 Clément Stahl , She-Sheng Xue

We provide a pedagogical review of the Schwinger effect, i.e., the non-perturbative production of particle and anti-particle pairs from the vacuum by strong fields, as well as related strong-field phenomena. Beginning with an overview of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-10 Hidetoshi Taya

We employ a self consistent framework to study the backreaction effects of particle creation in the coupled semiclassical dynamics of a quantum complex scalar field and a classical electric field in both (1 + 1) and (1 + 3) dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-26 Shagun Kaushal , Suprit Singh

Semiclassical expansion of the Wigner function for spin-1/2 fermions having an effective spacetime-dependent mass is used to analyze spin-polarization effects. The existing framework is reformulated to obtain a differential equation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-24 Samapan Bhadury , Arpan Das , Wojciech Florkowski , Gowthama K. K. , Radoslaw Ryblewski

We study electron-positron pair creation {from} the Dirac vacuum induced by a strong and slowly varying electric field (Schwinger effect) which is superimposed by a weak and rapidly changing electromagnetic field (dynamical pair creation).…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ralf Schützhold , Holger Gies , Gerald Dunne

The electron-positron pair production due to the dynamical Schwinger process in a slowly oscillating strong electric field is enhanced by the superposition of a rapidly oscillating weaker electric field. A systematic account of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 Andreas Otto , Daniel Seipt , David Blaschke , Stanislav Alexandrovich Smolyansky , Burkhard Kämpfer

Low mass particles with small electric charges can be produced abundantly in large electric fields via the Schwinger effect. We study the production rate of such particles inside the polar gap of nearby pulsars. After production they are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-10 Chris Kouvaris , Ian M. Shoemaker

We investigate particle production \`a la Schwinger mechanism in an expanding, flat de Sitter patch as is relevant for the inflationary epoch of our universe. Defining states and particle content in curved spacetime is certainly not a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-11 Ramkishor Sharma , Suprit Singh

We use the concept of quantum entanglement to analyze the Schwinger effect on an entangled state of a qubit and a bosonic mode coupled with the electric field. As a consequence of the Schwinger production of particle-antiparticle pairs, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-03 Yujie Li , Yu Shi

We study the pair production, string breaking, and hadronization of a receding electron-positron pair using the bosonized version of the massive Schwinger model in quantum electrodynamics in 1+1 space-time dimensions. Specifically, we study…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-02 Laura Batini , Lara Kuhn , Jürgen Berges , Stefan Floerchinger

Electron-positron pair production in strong electric fields, i.e., the Sauter-Schwinger effect, is studied using the real-time Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism. Hereby, the electric field is modeled to be a homogeneous, single-pulse field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-07 Obulkasim Olugh , Zi-Liang Li , Bai-Song Xie , Reinhard Alkofer

The quantum vacuum is unstable under the influence of an external electric field and decays into pairs of charged particles, a process which is known as the Schwinger pair production. We propose and demonstrate that this electric field can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Zahra Ebadi , Behrouz Mirza

This work covers electron positron pair production in spatially homogeneous electric (and magnetic) fields. Different field configurations are looked at in order to study various phenomena including multiphoton pair production,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-01-19 Alexander Blinne

We numerically investigate the temporal behavior and the structure of longitudinal momentum spectrum and the field polarity effect on pair production in pulsed electric fields in scalar quantum electrodynamics (QED). Using the evolution…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-07-24 Sang Pyo Kim , Hyung Won Lee , Remo Ruffini

Spontaneous pair production from background fields or spacetimes is one of the most prominent phenomena predicted by quantum field theory. The Schwinger mechanism of production of charged pairs by a strong electric field and the Hawking…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-28 Sang Pyo Kim

The mass shift effects in multiphoton pair production of a nonperturbative nature for arbitrary polarized electric fields are investigated numerically by employing the real-time Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism, and theoretically by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-24 Z. L. Li , D. Lu , B. F. Shen , L. B. Fu , J. Liu , B. S. Xie

We study the Schwinger effect, in which the external field having a spatiotemporal profile creates electron-positron pairs via multidimensional quantum tunneling. Our treatment is based on the trace formula for the QED effective action,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-13 Cesim K. Dumlu

Electron-positron pair production in space- and time-dependent electromagnetic fields is investigated. Especially, the influence of a time-dependent, inhomogeneous magnetic field on the particle momenta and the total particle yield is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-16 Christian Kohlfürst , Reinhard Alkofer