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We consider a charged scalar field in a $D$-dimensional de Sitter spacetime and investigate pair creation by a Schwinger mechanism in a constant electric field background. Using a semiclassical approximation the current of the created pairs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-11 Ehsan Bavarsad , Clément Stahl , She-Sheng Xue

We investigate pair creation by an electric field in four-dimensional de Sitter space. The expectation value of the induced current is computed, using the method of adiabatic regularization. Under strong electric fields the behavior of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-06 Takeshi Kobayashi , Niayesh Afshordi

We explore Schwinger effect of spin 1/2 charged particles with static electric field in 1+3 dimensional de Sitter spacetime. We analytically calculate the vacuum expectation value of the spinor current which is induced by the produced…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Takahiro Hayashinaka , Tomohiro Fujita , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

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

We present a short and novel derivation of the Schwinger mechanism for particle pair production in $1+1$ dimensional de Sitter and Anti de Sitter spacetimes. We work directly in the flat embedding space and derive the pair production rates…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-04 Prasant Samantray

We study classical background electric fields and the Schwinger effect in de Sitter space. We show that having a constant electric field in de Sitter requires the photon to have a tachyonic mass proportional to the Hubble scale. This has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-05 Mar Bastero-Gil , Paulo B. Ferraz , António Torres Manso , Lorenzo Ubaldi , Roberto Vega-Morales

We study the fermionic Schwinger effect in two dimensional de Sitter spacetime. To do so we first present a method to semiclassically compute the number of pairs created per momentum mode for general time dependent fields. In addition the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-13 Clément Stahl , Eckhard Strobel , She-Sheng Xue

In de Sitter space, the current induced by an electric field in vacuum is known to feature certain peculiarities, such as infrared hyperconductivity for light bosons in weak electric fields. Moreover, negative conductivity has been claimed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-11 Mariona Banyeres , Guillem Domènech , Jaume Garriga

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

The decay rate of the Bunch-Davies state of a massive scalar field in the expanding flat spatial sections of de Sitter space is determined by an analysis of the particle pair creation process in real time. The Feynman definition of particle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-04 Paul R. Anderson , Emil Mottola , Dillon H. Sanders

We study constant classical electric fields and the Schwinger effect in de Sitter space, with potential implications for magnetogenesis and inflationary dark matter production. Treating the photon as a dynamical field, we show that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-20 Mar Bastero-Gil , Paulo B. Ferraz , António Torres Manso , Lorenzo Ubaldi , Roberto Vega-Morales

We investigate the effect of a constant magnetic field background on the scalar QED pair production in a four-dimensional de Sitter spacetime ($\dsf$). We have obtained the pair production rate which agrees with the known Schwinger result…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-31 Ehsan Bavarsad , Sang Pyo Kim , Clément Stahl , She-Sheng Xue

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…

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 analytically investigate the Schwinger pair production in the de Sitter background by using {\em the uniform asymptotic approximation method}, and show that the equation of motion in general has two turning points, and the nature of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-12 Jia-Jia Geng , Bao-Fei Li , Jiro Soda , Anzhong Wang , Qiang Wu , Tao Zhu

We consider particle production in $1+1$ dimensional thermal Anti-de Sitter space under the influence of a constant electric field. The vacuum-persistence amplitude is given by a non-relativistic tunnelling instanton once we interpret the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-24 Prasant Samantray , Suprit Singh

We study a massive scalar field theory in de Sitter space. Using worldline instanton approach, we calculate probability of pair production in weak-field limit. In addition to exponential factor we derive pre-exponential factor. Within this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Sergey Guts

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

Non-Abelian gauge fields may exist during inflation. We study the Schwinger effect by an $SU(2)$ gauge field coupled to a charged scalar doublet in a (quasi) de Sitter background and the possible backreaction of the generated charged…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Kaloian D. Lozanov , Azadeh Maleknejad , Eiichiro Komatsu

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
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