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Pair-creation of charged particles in a strong gauge-field background - the renowned Schwinger effect - can strongly alter the efficiency of gauge-field production during axion inflation. It is therefore crucial to have a clear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-14 Richard von Eckardstein , Kai Schmitz , Oleksandr Sobol

We investigate the enhanced dynamically assisted electron-positron pair production in differently polarized electric fields with frequency chirps within the real-time Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism. The combined influence of the chirp…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-13 Abhinav Jangir , Anees Ahmed

The Hamiltonian describing fermion pair production from an arbitrarily time-varying electric field in two dimensions is studied using a group-theoretic approach. We show that this Hamiltonian can be encompassed by two, commuting SU(2)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 J. E. Seger , A. B. Balantekin

We investigated the spin effect on the vacuum pair production by Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner (DHW) formalism under two-color counter-rotating electric fields. We primarily studied the combined effects of the field asymmetry, time delay, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-19 Zhao-Yuan Chen , Orkash Amat , Jin-hui Bai , Mamat Ali Bake

The process of electron-positron pair production is investigated within the phase-space Wigner formalism. The similarities between atomic ionization and pair production for homogeneous, but time-dependent linearly polarized electric fields…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-21 Christian Kohlfürst

With a special choice of gauge the operator of the Klein-Fock-Gordon equation in homogeneous electric field respects boost symmetry. Using this symmetry we obtain solutions for the scalar massive field equation in such a background (boost…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 N. B. Narozhny , V. D. Mur , A. M. Fedotov

In the context of quantum electrodynamics, the decay of false vacuum leads to the production of electron-positron pair, a phenomenon known as the Schwinger effect. In practical experimental scenarios, producing a pair requires an extremely…

The simultaneous creation of multiple electron-positron pairs by localized strong electric fields is studied by utilizing a time- and space-resolved quantum field theory approach. It is demonstrated that the number of simultaneously created…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-26 Q. Z. Lv , Heiko Bauke

In this work, we show how the knowledge of the first few terms of the Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangian's weak-field expansion in a magnetic field background is enough to reconstruct the pair-production rate in a strong electric field background.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-30 Adrien Florio

Electric fields may decay by quantum tunneling: as calculated by Schwinger, an electron-positron pair may be summoned from the vacuum. In this paper I calculate the pair-production rate at nonzero temperatures. I find that at high…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-29 Adam R. Brown

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

Pair creation of scalar particles in a boost-invariant electric field which is confined in the forward light cone is studied. We present the proper-time evolution of momentum distributions of created particles, which preserve the boost…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-22 Naoto Tanji

We employ the recently developed worldline numerics, which combines string-inspired field theory methods with Monte-Carlo techniques, to develop an algorithm for the computation of pair-production rates in scalar QED for inhomogeneous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Holger Gies , Klaus Klingmuller

We study the Schwinger pair production in confining theories. The production rate in an external electric field E is numerically evaluated by using the holographic description. There exist two kinds of critical values of the electric field,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-03 Daisuke Kawai , Yoshiki Sato , Kentaroh Yoshida

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

Solutions to the backreaction equation in 1+1-dimensional semiclassical electrodynamics are obtained and analyzed when considering a time-varying homogeneous electric field initially generated by a classical electric current, coupled to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-12 Silvia Pla , Ian M. Newsome , Robert S. Link , Paul R. Anderson , Jose Navarro-Salas

Via a combination of analytical and numerical methods, we study electron-positron pair creation by the electromagnetic field ${\bf A}(t,{\bf r})=[f(ct-x)+f(ct+x)]{\bf e}_y$ of two colliding laser pulses. Employing a generalized WKB…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-14 Christian Kohlfürst , Naser Ahmadiniaz , Johannes Oertel , Ralf Schützhold

We compute the discharging rate of a uniform electric field due to Schwinger pair production in $(1+1)$-dimensional scalar electrodynamics with a compact dimension of radius $R$. Our calculation is performed in real time, using the in-in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-19 Yue Qiu , Lorenzo Sorbo

We quantum-simulated particle-antiparticle pair production with a bosonic quantum gas in an optical lattice by emulating the requisite 1d Dirac equation and uniform electric field. We emulated field strengths far in excess of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-26 Alina M. Piñeiro Escalera , Dina Genkina , Mingwu Lu , I. B. Spielman

Using a quantum kinetic equation coupled to Maxwell's equation we study the possibility that focused beams at proposed X-ray free electron laser facilities can generate electric field strengths large enough to cause spontaneous…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Alkofer , M. B. Hecht , C. D. Roberts , S. M. Schmidt , D. V. Vinnik