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In the framework of QED with a strong background, we study particle creation (the Schwinger effect) by a time-dependent inverse square electric field. To this end corresponding exact in- and out-solutions of the Dirac and Klein-Gordon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-08 T. C. Adorno , S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman

Particle-antiparticle pairs can be produced by background electric fields via the Schwinger mechanism provided they are unconfined. If, as in QED in (3+1)-$d$ these particles are massive, the particle production rate is exponentially…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-01 Gregory Gold , David A. McGady , Subodh P. Patil , Valeri Vardanyan

We investigate the effect of a constant magnetic field background on the scalar QED pair production in a four-dimensional de Sitter spacetime ($\dsf$). We have obtained the pair production rate which agrees with the known Schwinger result…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-31 Ehsan Bavarsad , Sang Pyo Kim , Clément Stahl , She-Sheng Xue

The quantum vacuum is unstable under the influence of an external electric field and decays into pairs of charged particles, a process which is known as the Schwinger pair production. We propose and demonstrate that this electric field can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Zahra Ebadi , Behrouz Mirza

We use the concept of quantum entanglement to analyze the Schwinger effect on an entangled state of a qubit and a bosonic mode coupled with the electric field. As a consequence of the Schwinger production of particle-antiparticle pairs, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-03 Yujie Li , Yu Shi

We study the generation of electromagnetic fields during inflation when the conformal invariance of Maxwell's action is broken by the kinetic coupling $f^{2}(\phi)F_{\mu\nu}F^{\mu\nu}$ of the electromagnetic field to the inflaton field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-03 O. O. Sobol , E. V. Gorbar , M. Kamarpour , S. I. Vilchinskii

Real-time quantum simulation of quantum field theory in (3+1)D requires large quantum computing resources. With a few-qubit quantum computer, we develop a novel algorithm and experimentally study the Schwinger effect, the electron-positron…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Bin Xu , Wei Xue

We study the Schwinger mechanism for the pair production of fermions in the presence of an arbitrary time-dependent background electric field E(t) by directly evaluating the path integral. We obtain an exact non-perturbative result for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Fred Cooper , Gouranga C. Nayak

In this work we consider two complex scalar fields distinguished by their masses coupled to constant background electric and magnetic fields in the $(3+1)$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime and subsequently investigate a few measures…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-26 Sourav Bhattacharya , Shankhadeep Chakrabortty , Hironori Hoshino , Shagun Kaushal

The angular momentum of fermion pairs generated by the Schwinger effect is studied in homogeneous (chromo)electromagnetic fields, mimicking the early stages of a heavy-ion collision. It is demonstrated that the angular momentum density of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-07 Patrick Copinger , Yoshimasa Hidaka

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

In the context of quantum electrodynamics, the decay of false vacuum leads to the production of electron-positron pair, a phenomenon known as the Schwinger effect. In practical experimental scenarios, producing a pair requires an extremely…

Non-perturbative electron-positron pair creation (Schwinger effect) is studied based on the equal-time Wigner formalism in 1+1 dimensions. An ab initio calculation of the Schwinger effect in the presence of a simple space- and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-11-11 Florian Hebenstreit , Reinhard Alkofer , Holger Gies

We study, for the first time, the Schwinger mechanism for the pair production of charged scalars in the presence of an arbitrary time-dependent background electric field E(t) by by directly evaluating the path integral. We obtain an exact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Fred Cooper , Gouranga C. Nayak

Some astrophysical objects are supposed to have very strong electromagnetic fields above the critical strength. Quantum fluctuations due to strong electromagnetic fields modify the Maxwell theory and particularly electric fields make the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Sang Pyo Kim , Hyun Kyu Lee

We study electron-positron pair creation {from} the Dirac vacuum induced by a strong and slowly varying electric field (Schwinger effect) which is superimposed by a weak and rapidly changing electromagnetic field (dynamical pair creation).…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ralf Schützhold , Holger Gies , Gerald Dunne

In this work we investigate the quantum theory of light propagating in $D-$dimensional de Sitter spacetimes. To do so, we use the method of dynamic invariants to obtain the solution of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation. The quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-10 G. Alencar , I. Guedes , R. R. Landim , R. N. Costa Filho

We consider -- within QED(2) -- the backreaction to the Schwinger pair creation in a time dependent, spatially homogeneous electric field. Our focus is the depletion of the external field as a quench and the subsequent long-term evolution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-26 A. Otto , D. Graeveling , B. Kämpfer

We provide a pedagogical review of the Schwinger effect, i.e., the non-perturbative production of particle and anti-particle pairs from the vacuum by strong fields, as well as related strong-field phenomena. Beginning with an overview of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-10 Hidetoshi Taya

Effective field theory of low-energy exitations-magnons that describes antiferromagnets is mapped into scalar electrodynamics of a charged scalar field interacting with an external electromagnetic potential. In the presence of a constant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-09 T. C. Adorno , S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman