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Following a nonperturbative formulation of strong-field QED developed in our earlier works, we consider photon emission accompanying vacuum instability under the action of a quasi-constant strong electric field of finite duration T. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-12 T. C. Adorno , S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman

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

Motivated by the particle acceleration problem in pulsars, we numerically investigate electrostatic instability of electron-positron pairs injected in an external electric field. The electric field is expected to be so strong that we cannot…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Katsuaki Asano , Fumio Takahara

Electron-positron pair production in low-energy collisions of heavy nuclei is considered beyond the monopole approximation. The calculation method is based on the numerical solving of the time-dependent Dirac equation with the full…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-08-20 I. A. Maltsev , V. M. Shabaev , R. V. Popov , Y. S. Kozhedub , G. Plunien , X. Ma , Th. Stöhlker

The probabilities of bound-free electron-positron pair creation are calculated for head-on collisions of bare uranium nuclei beyond the monopole approximation. The calculations are based on the numerical solving of the time-dependent Dirac…

Production of electron-positron pairs in two oscillating strong electric field pulses with largely different frequencies and durations is considered. In a first scenario, the influence of a low-frequency background field on pair production…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 N. Folkerts , J. Putzer , S. Villalba-Chávez , C. Müller

The non-perturbative electron-positron pair production in time-dependent electric fields is investigated. The quantum kinetic formalism is employed in order to calculate the electron density for various field configurations. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-06 Christian Kohlfürst

The superconducting proximity effect on two-dimensional massless Dirac electrons is usually analyzed using a simple model consisting of the Dirac Hamiltonian and an energy-independent pair potential. Although this conventional model is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Yositake Takane , Ryo Ando

We calculate the influence of dynamical exchange effects on the response properties and the static properties of a two-dimensional many-polaron gas. These effects are not manifested in the random-phase approximation which is widely used in…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 K. J. Hameeuw , J. Tempere , F. Brosens , J. T. Devreese

Recently it has been found that the superposition of a strong and slow electric field with a weaker and faster pulse can significantly enhance the probability for non-perturbative electron-positron pair creation out of the vacuum -- the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Christian Fey , Ralf Schützhold

We study electron-positron pair creation by a strong and slowly varying electric field, assisted by a weaker and more rapidly changing field (e.g., in the keV regime) plus an additional high-energy (say MeV) photon. It turns out that this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-21 Greger Torgrimsson , Johannes Oertel , Ralf Schützhold

Total and energy-angle differential probabilities of positrons created in slow collisions of two identical nuclei are calculated within relativistic two-center approach. The time-dependent Dirac equation is solved in the rotating frame…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-10 N. K. Dulaev , D. A. Telnov , V. M. Shabaev , Y. S. Kozhedub , X. Ma , I. A. Maltsev , R. V. Popov , I. I. Tupitsyn

We investigate the phenomenon of electron-positron pair production from vacuum in the presence of a strong electric field of circular polarization. By means of a nonperturbative approach based on the quantum kinetic equations (QKEs), we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-04 I. A. Aleksandrov , A. Kudlis

The Bogoliubov-Dirac-Fock (BDF) model is a no-photon approximation of quantum electrodynamics. It allows to study relativistic electrons in interaction with the Dirac sea. A state is fully characterized by its one-body density matrix, an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-16 Jérémy Sok

In this paper, a phase-space description of electron-positron pair-creation will be applied, based on a Wigner transformation of the Klein-Gordon equation. The resulting theory is similar in many respects to the equations from the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-08 Haidar Al-Naseri , Gert Brodin

Nonperturbative methods have been well-developed for QED with the so-called t-electric potential steps. In this case a calculation technique is based on the existence of specific exact solutions (in and out solutions) of the Dirac equation.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-25 S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman

Spontaneous creation of electron-positron pairs out of the vacuum due to a strong electric field is a spectacular manifestation of the relativistic energy-momentum relation for the Dirac fermions. This fundamental prediction of Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-05 Nikodem Szpak , Ralf Schützhold

Recently the so called Spontaneous Pair Creation of electron positron pairs in a strong external field has been rigorously established. We give here the heuristic core of the proof, since the results differ from those given in earlier…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Pickl , D. Duerr

The production of electron-positron pairs in a time-dependent magnetic field is estimated in the hypotheses that the magnetic field is uniform over large distances with respect to the pair localization and it is so strong that the spacing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-15 Giorgio Calucci

The ground state of the Dirac one-electron atom, placed in a weak, static electric field of definite $2^{L}$-polarity, is studied within the framework of the first-order perturbation theory. The Sturmian expansion of the generalized…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 Radosław Szmytkowski , Grzegorz Łukasik