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We compute Schwinger pair production rates at finite temperature, in the presence of homogeneous, concurrent electric and magnetic fields. Expressions are obtained using the semiclassical worldline instanton formalism, to leading order, for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-01 Mrunal Korwar , Arun M. Thalapillil

We calculate the rate of thermal Schwinger pair production at arbitrary coupling in weak external fields. Our calculations are valid independently of many properties of the charged particles produced, in particular their spin and whether…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-11 Oliver Gould , Arttu Rajantie

We use the evolution operator method to find the Schwinger pair-production rate at finite temperature in scalar and spinor QED by counting the vacuum production, the induced production and the stimulated annihilation from the initial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-12 Sang Pyo Kim , Hyun Kyu Lee , Yongsung Yoon

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

We show that contrary to the claim made by Hallin and Liljenberg in Phys. Rev. D52 1150,(1995), (hep-th/9412188) the thermal correction to the thermal decay or pair production rate for a system placed in a heat bath in the presence of an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Avijit K. Ganguly

Electric fields may decay by quantum tunneling: as calculated by Schwinger, an electron-positron pair may be summoned from the vacuum. In this paper I calculate the pair-production rate at nonzero temperatures. I find that at high…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-29 Adam R. Brown

We analyze entanglement generated by the Schwinger effect using a mode-by-mode formalism for scalar and spinor QED in constant backgrounds. Starting from thermal initial states, we derive compact, closed-form results for bipartite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-13 Dimitrios Kranas , Amaury Marchon , Silvia Pla

We calculate finite-temperature corrections to the decay rate of a generic neutral (pseudo)scalar particle that decays into (pseudo)scalars or fermion-antifermion pairs. The ratio of the finite-temperature decay rate to the zero-temperature…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-06 Chiu Man Ho , Robert J. Scherrer

In scalar QED we study the Schwinger pair production from an initial ensemble of charged bosons when an electric field is turned on for a finite period together with or without a constant magnetic field. The scalar QED Hamiltonian depends…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Sang Pyo Kim , Hyun Kyu Lee

Using lattice perturbation theory at finite temperature, we compute for staggered fermions the one-loop fermionic corrections to the spatial and temporal plaquette couplings as well as the leading $Z_N$ symmetry breaking coupling. Numerical…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 Peter N. Meisinger , Michael C. Ogilvie

We derive the hard thermal loop action for soft electromagnetic fields in the finite temperature world-line formulation at imaginary time, by first integrating out the hard fermion modes from the microscopic QED action. Further, using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Venugopalan , J. Wirstam

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

In this note, we show that the well-known leading low-temperature correction to the Heisenberg-Euler Lagrangian in a constant electromagnetic field arising at two loops can be efficiently extracted from its one-loop zero-temperature…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-17 Felix Karbstein

We compute the gluon polarization tensor in a thermo-magnetic environment in the strong magnetic field limit at zero and high temperature. The magnetic field effects are introduced using Schwinger's proper time method. Thermal effects are…

In this paper, we give formal results of Schwinger pair production correction in thermal systems with external background field by using the evolution operator method of thermo field dynamics, where especially tree level correction of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-25 Y. L. Wang , H. B. Sang , B. S. Xie

The temperature dependence of the order parameter of the Schwinger model is calculated in the euclidean functional integral approach. For that we solve the model on a finite torus and let the spatial extension tend to infinity at the end of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-09 Ivo Sachs , Andreas Wipf

We study the possibility of observing Schwinger pair production enhanced by a thermal bath of photons. We consider the full range of temperatures and electric field intensities from pure Schwinger production to pure thermal production, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-29 Oliver Gould , Stuart Mangles , Arttu Rajantie , Steven Rose , Cheng Xie

Perturbation theory at finite temperature suffers from well-known infrared problems. In the standard model, as a result, one cannot calculate the effective potential for arbitrarily small values of $\phi$, the Higgs expectation value.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 John Bagnasco , Michael Dine

Finite-temperature, grand-canonical computations based on field theory are widely applied in areas including condensed matter physics, ultracold atomic gas systems, and lattice gauge theory. However, these calculations have computational…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-02 Yuan-Yao He , Hao Shi , Shiwei Zhang

We consider the logarithmic negativity of a finite interval embedded in an infinite one dimensional system at finite temperature. We focus on conformal invariant systems and we show that the naive approach based on the calculation of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-17 Pasquale Calabrese , John Cardy , Erik Tonni
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