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We study the particle creation process in the Schwinger model coupled with an external classical source. One can approach the problem by taking advantage that the full quantized model is solvable and equivalent to a (massive) gauge field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-29 José Navarro-Salas , Silvia Pla

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

In this article, we review recent theoretical works on the Schwingermechanism of particle production in external electrical fields. Although the non-perturbative Schwinger mechanism is at the center of this discussion, many of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-17 Francois Gelis , Naoto Tanji

We review the Schr\"odinger picture of field theory in curved spacetime and using this formalism, the power spectrum of massive non-interacting, minimally coupled scalars in a fixed de Sitter background is obtained. To calculate the N-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-17 Abasalt Rostami , Javad T. Firouzjaee

We investigate the phenomenon of particle production in a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe which contains a phase of de Sitter expansion for a finite interval, outside which it reduces to the flat Minkowski spacetime. We compute the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-24 Victor E. Ambrus

This work explores the intersection of quantum mechanics and curved spacetime by employing the Wigner formalism to investigate quantum systems in the vicinity of black holes. Specifically, we study the quantum dynamics of a probe particle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-21 David Garcia-Garcia , Jose A. R. Cembranos

Over the years, de Sitter spacetime has been a central focus, in studies involving quantum fields, for its importance in the early and late expansion stages of the universe. While de Sitter spacetime closely mimics characteristics of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-12 Sujoy K. Modak

This thesis applies techniques from quantum field theory in curved spacetimes to study particle creation in external fields, focusing on the Schwinger effect (i.e., the production of particle-antiparticle pairs by intense electric fields).…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-13 Álvaro Álvarez-Domínguez

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 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

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

We develop a formalism for computing the scattering amplitudes in maximally symmetric de Sitter spacetime with compact spatial dimensions. We describe quantum states by using the representation theory of de Sitter symmetry group and link…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-18 Tomasz R. Taylor , Bin Zhu

In this work we investigate the quantum theory of scalar fields propagating in a $D-$dimensional de Sitter spacetime. The method of dynamic invariants is used to obtain the solution of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation. The quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 G. Alencar , I. Guedes , R. R. Landim , R. N. Costa Filho

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

The decay rate of the Bunch-Davies state of a massive scalar field in the expanding flat spatial sections of de Sitter space is determined by an analysis of the particle pair creation process in real time. The Feynman definition of particle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-04 Paul R. Anderson , Emil Mottola , Dillon H. Sanders

We describe progress towards constructing a quantum theory of de Sitter space in four dimensions. In particular we indicate how both particle states and Schwarzschild de Sitter black holes can arise as excitations in a theory of a finite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Banks , B. Fiol , A. Morisse

Using classical statistics, Schrodinger equation in quantum mechanics is derived from complex space model. Phase-space probability amplitude, that can be defined on classical point of view, has connections to probability amplitude in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kiyoung Kim

We consider quantum field theory in de Sitter space, focusing on the cases of scalars, spin 1/2 fields, and symmetric and anti-symmetric tensor fields of arbitrary spin. The free field equations in global coordinates can be reduced to a one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-16 Philip Lagogiannis , Alexander Maloney , Yi Wang

We study the Schwinger pair creation of scalar charged particles by a homogeneous electric field in an expanding universe in the quantum kinetic approach. We introduce an adiabatic vacuum for the scalar field based on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-03 Anastasia V. Lysenko , Oleksandr O. Sobol

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