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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 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 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 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

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

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 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 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

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 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 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

In the presence of a strong electric field, the vacuum is unstable to the production of pairs of charged particles -- the Schwinger effect. The created pairs extract energy from the electric field, resulting in nontrivial backreaction. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-10 Samuel E. Gralla , Morifumi Mizuno

We study particle - antiparticle pair production under action of a strong time dependent space homogeneous electric field at the presence of a collinear constant magnetic field. We derive the kinetic equation for a such field configuration…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 A. V. Tarakanov , A. V. Reichel , S. A. Smolyansky , S. M. Schmidt , D. V. Vinnik

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

In the very early universe, a generalized Schwinger effect can create pairs from both electrical and gravitational fields. The expectation value of fermionic current induced by these newly created pairs has been recently computed in de…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-01 Clément Stahl , Eckhard Strobel , She-Sheng Xue

The vacuum of quantum electrodynamics is unstable against the formation of many-body states in the presence of an external electric field, manifesting itself as the creation of electron-positron pairs (Schwinger effect). This effect has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-01 Florian Hebenstreit

We study magnetogenesis in axionlike inflation driven by a pseudoscalar field $\phi$ coupled axially to the electromagnetic (EM) field $(\beta/M_{p})\phi F_{\mu\nu}\tilde{F}^{\mu\nu}$ with dimensionless coupling constant $\beta$. A set of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-20 O. O. Sobol , E. V. Gorbar , S. I. Vilchinskii

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

The Schwinger mechanism, the production of charged particle-antiparticle pairs in a macroscopic external electric field, is derived for 2+1 dimensional theories. The rate of pair production per unit area for four species of massless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-23 Danielle Allor , Thomas D. Cohen , David A. McGady

This article investigates the Schwinger effect for fermions with background electric and magnetic fields of constant strengths from the point of view of a uniformly accelerated or the Rindler observer. The Dirac equation is solved in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-16 Shagun Kaushal
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