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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 effects of electric field polarizations on pair production from a vacuum are investigated numerically by employing the real-time Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism. For few-cycle fields, it is found that the interference pattern in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Z. L. Li , D. Lu , B. S. Xie

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

We investigate the phenomenon of electron-positron pair production from vacuum in the presence of a uniform time-dependent electric field of arbitrary polarization. Taking into account the interaction with the external classical background…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-04 I. A. Aleksandrov , A. Kudlis , A. I. Klochai

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 explore Schwinger pair production in rotating time-dependent electric fields using the real-time DHW formalism. We determine the time evolution of the Wigner function as well as asymptotic particle distributions neglecting back-reactions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-23 Alexander Blinne , Holger Gies

The process of $e^+e^-$ production in the superposition of a Coulomb and a strong laser field is considered. The pair production rate integrated over the momentum and summed over the spin projections of one of the particles is derived…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-18 A. Di Piazza , A. I. Milstein , C. Müller

The momentum signatures in nonperturbative multiphoton pair production for general elliptic polarization electric fields are investigated by employing the real-time Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism. For a linearly polarized electric field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-17 Z. L. Li , D. Lu , B. S. Xie , B. F. Shen , L. B. Fu , J. Liu

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

The production of electron-positron pairs from vacuum by counterpropagating laser beams of linear polarization is calculated. In contrast to the usual approximate approach, the spatial dependence and magnetic component of the laser field…

Electron-positron pair production in an arbitrary polarized ultrastrong laser field is investigated in the first order perturbation approximation in which the Volkov states are used for convenient calculation of scattering amplitude and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Liang-Yong He , Bai-Song Xie , Xin-Heng Guo , Hong-Yu Wang

The process of pair creation by a photon in a constant and homogeneous electromagnetic field of an arbitrary configuration is investigating. At high energy the correction to the standard quasiclassical approximation (SQA) has been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-02 V. M. Katkov

The bound-free channel of electron-positron pair production by a highly charged bare ion in the presence of a strong constant crossed electromagnetic field is studied. To calculate the pair production rate, two different methods are applied…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 S. Remme , A. Eckey , S. Villalba-Chávez , A. B. Voitkiv , C. Müller

Treating the production of electron and positron pairs by a strong electric field from the vacuum as a quantum tunneling process we derive, in semiclassical approximation, a general expression for the pair production rate in a $z$-dependent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-18 Hagen Kleinert , Remo Ruffini , She-Sheng Xue

The momentum spectrum and the number density of created electron-positron pairs in a frequency modulated laser field are investigated using quantum kinetic equation. It is found that the momentum spectrum presents obvious interference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 C. Gong , Z. L. Li , B. S. Xie , Y. J. Li

We first demonstrate theoretically that the computational quantum field theory is equivalent to the quantum kinetic theory for pair creation in a spatially homogeneous and time-dependent electric field, then verify numerically their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-30 Z. L. Li , C. Gong , Y. J. Li

Production of electron-positron pairs from vacuum in strong bichromatic electric fields, oscillating in time with a fundamental frequency and its second harmonic, is studied. Strong-field processes occuring in such field configurations are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 J. Braß , R. Milbradt , S. Villalba-Chávez , G. G. Paulus , C. Müller

The non-perturbative electron-positron pair production (Schwinger effect) is considered for space- and time-dependent electric fields $\vec{E}(\vec{x},t)$. Based on the Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner (DHW), formalism we derive a system of partial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-23 Florian Hebenstreit , Reinhard Alkofer , Holger Gies

Process of lepton pair production by polarized photon on nuclei can be used to measure the degree of linear polarization of high energy photon. The differential cross section and the analyzing power are calculated with taking into account…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Bakmaev , E. A. Kuraev , I. Shapoval , Yu. P. Peresunko

By using Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism we study electron-positron pair production for linear, elliptic, nearly circular and circular polarizations of electric fields with symmetrical frequency chirp, and we obtain Momentum spectra and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-11 Kun Wang , Xuehua Hu , Sayipjamal Dulat , B. S. Xie