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We consider $R^4$ corrections to the holographic Schwinger effect in an AdS black hole background and a confining D3-brane background. The potential between a test particle pair are performed for both backgrounds. We find there is no…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-15 Fei Li , Zi-qiang Zhang , Gang Chen

We study the probability distribution of the number of particle and antiparticle pairs produced via the Schwinger effect when a uniform but time-dependent electric field is applied to noninteracting scalars or spinors initially at a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-08 Yusuke Nishida

In this work, we investigate the Schwinger effect in a twice anisotropic holographic QCD model that incorporates both spatial and magnetic anisotropies. Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, we calculate the total potential of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-25 Wen-Bin Chang

Effect of spatially oscillating fields on the electron-positron pair production is studied numerically and analytically when the work done by the electric field over its spatial extent is smaller than twice the electron mass. Under large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-11 Orkash Amat , Li-Na Hu , Mamat Ali Bake , Melike Mohamedsedik , B. S. Xie

We study electron-positron pair production by spatially inhomogeneous electric fields. Depending on the localization of the field, a critical point (critical surface) exists in the space of field configurations where the pair production…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-08 Holger Gies , Greger Torgrimsson

We investigate Schwinger pair production in spatially inhomogeneous electric backgrounds. A critical point for the onset of pair production can be approached by fields that marginally provide sufficient electrostatic energy for an off-shell…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-09 Holger Gies , Greger Torgrimsson

In this paper, we consider a deformed AdS background and study effect of deformation parameter on the pair production rate of the Schwinger effect. The electrostatic potential is important for the pair production in the holographic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-11 J. Sadeghi , B. Pourhassan , S. Tahery , F. Razavi

This paper, among other things, talks about possible research on the holographic Schwinger effect with a rotating probe D3-brane. We discover that for the zero temperature case in the Schwinger effect, the faster the angular velocity and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-21 Hao Xu , M. Ilyas , Yong-Chang Huang

Membrane nucleation, a higher dimensional analog of the Schwinger effect, is a useful toy model for vacuum decay. While a non-perturbative effect, the computation of nucleation rates has only been accomplished at weak coupling in the field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-18 Maite Arcos , Willy Fischler , Juan F. Pedraza , Andrew Svesko

By using AdS/CFT, we study the critical electric field, the Schwinger pair creation rate and the potential phase diagram for the quark and anti quark in four confining supergravity backgrounds which are the Witten QCD, the Maldacena-Nunez,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-25 Mahdis Ghodrati

The vacuum of quantum electrodynamics is unstable against the formation of many-body states in the presence of an external electric field, manifesting itself as the creation of electron-positron pairs (Schwinger effect). This effect has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-01 Florian Hebenstreit

With increasing temperatures, Schwinger pair production changes from a quantum tunnelling to a classical, thermal process, determined by a worldline sphaleron. We show this and calculate the corresponding rate of pair production for both…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-10 Oliver Gould , Arttu Rajantie , Cheng Xie

Using the symmetry of the near-horizon geometry and applying quantum field theory of a complex scalar field, we study the spontaneous pair production of charged scalars from near-extremal rotating, electrically and/or magnetically charged…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-22 Chiang-Mei Chen , Sang Pyo Kim , Jia-Rui Sun

We propose a systematic approach to deriving symmetry generators of Quantum Field Theories in holography. Central to this are the Gauss law constraints in the Hamiltonian quantization of Symmetry Topological Field Theories (SymTFTs), which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-30 Fabio Apruzzi , Ibrahima Bah , Federico Bonetti , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

Electron - hole pairs are copuously created by an applied electric field near the Dirac point in graphene or similar 2D electronic systems. It was shown recently that for sufficiently large electric fields and ballistic times the I-V…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 M. Lewkowicz , H. C. Kao , B. Rosenstein

We analyze the pair production of charged particles in two-dimensional Anti-de Sitter space (AdS_2) with a constant, uniform electric field. We compute the production rate both at a semi-classical level, viewing Schwinger pair production as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Pioline , J. Troost

We use the method of evaluating the decay rate in terms of the imaginary part of a probe brane action to study the holographic Schwinger effect. In the confining D3-branes case, we find that the Schwinger effect occurs at energy scales…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-26 Xing Wu

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

We consider the Schwinger effect in confining phase by using a holographic setup. The potential analysis is performed for the confining D3-brane and D4-brane backgrounds. We find the critical electric field above which there is no potential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Yoshiki Sato , Kentaroh Yoshida

We analyze the entanglement of a Schwinger pair created by a time-dependent pulse. In the semi-classical approximation, the pair creation by a pulse of external electric field is captured by a periodic worldline instanton. At strong gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-20 Sebastian Grieninger , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Ismail Zahed