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We study particle - antiparticle pair production under action of a strong time dependent space homogeneous electric field at the presence of a collinear constant magnetic field. We derive the kinetic equation for a such field configuration…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 A. V. Tarakanov , A. V. Reichel , S. A. Smolyansky , S. M. Schmidt , D. V. Vinnik

We discuss the mechanism of production of electron-positron pairs from the vacuum in a time-varying, spatially uniform pulsed electric field. We analytically compute the probability of $(e^+ e^-) $pair production in momentum space using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-14 Deepak Sah , Manoranjan P. Singh

QED-effects are known to occur in a strong laser pulse interaction with a counter-propagating electron beam, among these effects being electron-positron pair creation. We discuss the range of laser pulse intensities of J > 5*10^22 W/cm2…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-11-11 Igor V. Sokolov , Natalia M. Naumova , John A. Nees , Gerard A. Mourou

Electron-positron pair production by the superposition of two laser pulses with different frequencies and amplitudes is analyzed as a particular realization of the assisted dynamic Schwinger effect. It is demonstrated that, within a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 A. D. Panferov , S. A. Smolyansky , A. Otto , B. Kaempfer , D. Blaschke , L. Juchnowski

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

In the framework of QED with a strong background, we study particle creation (the Schwinger effect) by a time-dependent inverse square electric field. To this end corresponding exact in- and out-solutions of the Dirac and Klein-Gordon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-08 T. C. Adorno , S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman

We report on the dynamical scaling of momentum spectra for particle-antiparticle pairs at finite times within the framework of scalar Quantum Electrodynamics (QED). The analysis focuses on the momentum spectra in two different choices of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-04 Deepak Sah , Manoranjan P. Singh

Schwinger pair production in spatially and temporally inhomogeneous electric and magnetic fields is studied. The focus is on the particle phase-space distribution within a high-intensity few-cycle pulse. Accurate numerical solutions of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-26 Christian Kohlfürst

We study nonperturbative pair production driven by alternating-sign electric field pulse trains. Using a quantum kinetic approach, we analyze both the longitudinal momentum spectrum and the particle yield for pulse sequences with either…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-05 Deepak Sah

Production of electron-positron pairs from the quantum vacuum polarized by the superposition of a strong and a perturbative oscillating electric-field mode is studied. Our outcomes rely on a nonequilibrium quantum field theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-09 Ibrahim Akal , Selym Villalba-Chávez , Carsten Müller

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 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

Recent studies of Schwinger pair production have demonstrated that the asymptotic particle spectrum is extremely sensitive to the applied field profile. We extend the idea of the dynamically assisted Schwinger effect from single pulse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-14 Florian Hebenstreit , François Fillion-Gourdeau

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 study the time-dependent solitonic gauge fields in scalar QED, in which a charged particle has the energy of reflectionless P\"{o}sch-Teller potential with natural quantum numbers. Solving the quantum master equation for quadratic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-10-24 Sang Pyo Kim

The particle production in a de Sitter space provides an interesting model to understand the curvature effect on Schwinger pair production by a constant electric field or Schwinger mechanism on the de Sitter radiation. For that purpose, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Sang Pyo Kim

For different alternating-sign multi-pulse trains electric fields with oscillation, the effects of the electric field pulse number and the relative phase of the combined electric field on pair production are investigated by solving quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-03 Lie-Juan Li , Xiao-Wei Sun , Melike Mohamedsedik , Li Wang , Li-Na Hu , Bai-Song Xie

Ultra strong electromagnetic fields can lead to spontaneous creation of single or multiple electron-positron pairs. A quantum field theoretical treatment of the pair creation process combined with numerical methods provides a description of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-26 Anton Wöllert , Heiko Bauke , Christoph H. Keitel

The collective production of electron-positron pairs by electrostatic waves in quantum plasmas is investigated. In particular, a semi-classical governing set of equation for a self-consistent treatment of pair creation by the Schwinger…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Marklund , B. Eliasson , P. K. Shukla , L. Stenflo , M. E. Dieckmann , M. Parviainen

We examine the phenomenon of electron-positron pair production from vacuum in a combination of two counterpropagating electromagnetic pulses having a duration of the order of the Compton time. We show that in this extreme short-time domain,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-19 I. A. Aleksandrov , N. N. Rosanov