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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

We consider Schwinger pair production in 1+1 dimensional de Sitter space, filled with a constant electric field $E$. This can be thought of as a model for describing false vacuum decay beyond the semiclassical approximation, where pairs of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Markus B. Fröb , Jaume Garriga , Sugumi Kanno , Misao Sasaki , Jiro Soda , Takahiro Tanaka , Alexander Vilenkin

We considered a new renormalization condition for the vacuum expectation values of the scalar and spinor currents induced by a homogeneous and constant electric field background in de Sitter spacetime. Following a semiclassical argument,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-23 Takahiro Hayashinaka , She-Sheng Xue

The covariant and gauge invariant calculation of the current expectation value in the homogeneous electric field in 1+3 dimensional de Sitter spacetime is shown. The result accords with previous work obtained by using adiabatic subtraction…

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

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 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

The effect of the electric field on the creation of spin 1/2 particles from vacuum in the (1+1) dimensional de-Sitter space-time is studied. The Dirac equation with a constant electric field is solved by introducing an unitary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-01 S. Haouat , R. Chekireb

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 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 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

Vacuum expectation values (VEVs) of the current densities for charged scalar and Dirac spinor fields are investigated in (D+1)-dimensional de Sitter (dS) spacetime with toroidally compactified spatial dimensions. Along compact dimensions we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-08-02 S. Bellucci , A. A. Saharian , H. A. Nersisyan

The main objective of this comment is to correct the density number of created fermions by an electric field in the (1+1) dimensional de-Sitter space-time communicated by V. M. Villalba in Phys. Rev. D 52, 3742 (1995). It is shown how the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-07 S. Haouat , R. Chekireb

We explore the enhancement of an electromagnetic field in an inflationary background with an anti-conductive plasma of scalar particles. The scalar particles are created by Schwinger effect in curved spacetime and backreact to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-30 Clement Stahl

We investigate the fermionic condensate and the vacuum expectation value of the energy-momentum tensor for a massive spinor field in the geometry of a straight cosmic string on background of de Sitter spacetime. By using the Abel-Plana…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-08-24 E. R. Bezerra de Mello , A. A. Saharian

In the present article we solve the Dirac equation in a de Sitter universe when a constant electric field is present. Using the Bogoliubov transformations, we compute the rate of spin 1/2 created particles by the electric field. We compare…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-15 Víctor M. Villalba

The Schwinger-de Witt and Hadamard methods are used to obtain renormalised vacuum expectation values for the fermion condensate, charge current and stress-energy tensor of a quantum fermion field of arbitrary mass on four-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-04 Victor E. Ambrus , Elizabeth Winstanley

In 2+1 dimensions there exists a duality between a charged Dirac particle coupled minimally to a background vector potential and a neutral one coupled nonminimally to a background electromagnetic field strength. A constant uniform…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Qiong-gui Lin

We investigate the vacuum fermionic currents in the geometry of a compactified cosmic string on background of de Sitter spacetime. The currents are induced by magnetic fluxes running along the cosmic string and enclosed by the compact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 A. Mohammadi , E. R. Bezerra de Mello , A. A. Saharian

Effects due to fermion-vacuum polarization by an external static magnetic field are considered in a two-dimensional noncompact curved space with a nontrivial topology. An expression for the vacuun angular momentum is obtained. Like the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. A. Sitenko , D. G. Rakityansky
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