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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

Quantum kinetic theory is an important tool for studying non-equilibrium, non-perturbative and non-linear interactions within an open quantum system, and as such is able to provide an unprecedented view on particle production in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-12 James P. Edwards , Naser Ahmadiniaz , Sebastian M. Schmidt , Christian Kohlfürst

We discuss the interconnection between the Schwinger pair creation in electric field, Hawking radiation and particle creation in the Unruh effect. All three processes can be described in terms of the entropy and temperature. These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-09 G. E. Volovik

The effect of particle creation by nonstationary external fields is considered as a radiation effect in the expectation-value spacetime. The energy of created massless particles is calculated as the vacuum contribution in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. G. Mirzabekian , G. A. Vilkovisky

A new approximation scheme for non-perturbative calculations in a quantum field theory is proposed. The scheme is based on investigation of solutions of the Schwinger equation with its singular character taken into account. As a necessary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 V. E. Rochev , P. A. Saponov

The inexactness of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation of a charged particle in an external electromagnetic field is discussed in terms of the damping effect of the radiation. A possible improvement is to add a nonlinear term…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-07 Ji Luo

We discuss the functional Schroedinger picture for fermions in external fields for both stationary and time-dependent problems. We give formal results for the ground state and the solution of the time-dependent Schroedinger equation for QED…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Claus Kiefer , Andreas Wipf

The technique of functional integration over velocities is applied to the calculation of the propagator of a spinning particle with and without anomalous magnetic moment. A representation for the spin factor is obtained in this context for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 Wellington da Cruz

A spatially homogeneous, time-dependent, electric field can produce charged particle pairs from the vacuum. When the electric field is constant, the mean number of pairs which are produced depends on the electric field and the coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-26 Karthik Rajeev , Sumanta Chakraborty , T. Padmanabhan

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

In the dynamically assisted Schwinger mechanism, the pair production probability is significantly enhanced by including a weak, rapidly varying field in addition to a strong, slowly varying field. In a previous paper we showed that several…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-16 Greger Torgrimsson

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

The bi-local fields are the quantum fields of two-particle systems, the bi-local, systems, bounded by relativistic potentials. Since those form constrained dynamical systems, it is limited to introduce the interactions of the bi-local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-13 Kenichi Aouda , Naohiro Kanda , Shigefumi Naka , Haruki Toyoda

Schr{\"o}dinger-Pauli (SP) theory is a description of electrons in the presence of a static electromagnetic field in which the interaction of the magnetic field with both the orbital and spin moments is explicitly considered. The theory is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-24 Viraht Sahni

The Schr\"odinger theory of electrons in an external electromagnetic field can be described from the perspective of the individual electron via the `Quantal Newtonian' laws (or differential virial theorems). These laws are in terms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Viraht Sahni , Xiao-Yin Pan

By extending the quantum evolution of a scalar field in time-dependent backgrounds to the complex-time plane and transporting the in-vacuum along a closed path, we argue that the geometric transition from the simple pole at infinity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Sang Pyo Kim

Current dynamical control based on the bang-bang control mechanism involving various types of pulse sequences is essentially a perturbative theory. This paper presents a non-perturbative dynamical control approach based on the exact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-03 Jun Jing , Lian-Ao Wu , J. Q. You , Ting Yu

A kinetic theory of vacuum particle creation under the action of an inertial mechanism is constructed within a nonpertrubative dynamical approach. At the semi-phenomenological level, the inertial mechanism corresponds to quantum field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-18 A. V. Filatov , A. V. Prozorkevich , S. A. Smolyansky , V. D. Toneev

In this paper, the massless Schwinger model or two dimensional quantum electrodynamics is exactly solved on a Riemann surface. The partition function and the generating functional of the correlation functions involving the fermionic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-11 Franco Ferrari

The theory of quantum fields in classical backgrounds is re-examined for the cases in which the Lagrangian is quadratic in quantum fields. Various methods that describe particle production are discussed. It is found that all methods suffer…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 H. Nikolic