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Electron-positron pair creation occurs throughout the universe in the environments of extreme astrophysical objects, such as pulsar magnetospheres and black hole accretion disks. The difficulty of emulating these environments in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 B. Barbosa , J. P. Palastro , D. Ramsey , K. Weichman , M. Vranic

A robust theory of the mechanism of pair density wave (PDW) superconductivity (i.e. where Cooper pairs have nonzero center of mass momentum) remains elusive. Here we explore the triangular lattice $t$-$J$-$V$ model, a low-energy effective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-28 Jiucai Wang , Wen Sun , Hao-Xin Wang , Zhaoyu Han , Steven A. Kivelson , Hong Yao

We study the Schwinger electron-positron pair production by a strong electromagnetic field of two colliding e-polarized laser pulses with a relative phase shift $\Psi$. The spatio-temporal distribution of created pairs is very sensitive to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-03 Chitradip Banerjee , Manoranjan P. Singh , Alexander M. Fedotov

Production of electron-positron pairs by a high-energy $\gamma$ photon and a bichromatic laser wave is considered where the latter is composed of a strong low-frequency and a weak high-frequency component, both with circular polarization.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-06 N. Mahlin , S. Villalba-Chávez , C. Müller

We investigate the enhanced dynamically assisted electron-positron pair production in differently polarized electric fields with frequency chirps within the real-time Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism. The combined influence of the chirp…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-13 Abhinav Jangir , Anees Ahmed

The creation of electron-positron pairs by the strong-field Breit-Wheeler process in intense short laser pulses is investigated in the framework of laser-dressed quantum electrodynamics. Regarding laser field parameters in the multiphoton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-01 Martin J. A. Jansen , Carsten Müller

We propose a new catalysis mechanism for non-perturbative vacuum electron-positron pair production, by superimposing a plane-wave X-ray probe beam with a strongly focused optical laser pulse, such as is planned at the Extreme Light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-11 Gerald V. Dunne , Holger Gies , Ralf Schützhold

In this paper we study the possibility of efficient pair production in a pulsar's magnetosphere. It has been shown that by means of the relativistic centrifugal force the electrostatic field exponentially amplifies. As a result the field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-14 Z. Osmanov , G. Machabeli , N. Chkheidze

We propose a method of generating fully entangled electron spin pairs using an open static quantum dot and a moving quantum dot, realized by the propagation of a surface acoustic wave (SAW) along a quasi-one-dimensional channel in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Giavaras , J. H. Jefferson , M. Fearn , C. J. Lambert

The influence of hypersonic waves excited in a single crystal is investigated on the process of electron-positron pair creation by high-energy photons. The coherent part of the corresponding differential cross-section is derived as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 A. R. Mkrtchyan , A. A. Saharian , L. Sh. Grigoryan , B. V. Khachatryan

The production of electron-positron pairs in time-dependent electric fields (Schwinger mechanism) depends non-linearly on the applied field profile. Accordingly, the resulting momentum spectrum is extremely sensitive to small variations of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-23 Florian Hebenstreit

We study nonperturbative multiphoton electron-positron pair creation in ultrastrong electromagnetic fields formed by two counterpropagating pulses with elliptic polarization. Our numerical approach allows us to take into account the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Anton Wöllert , Heiko Bauke , Christoph H. Keitel

Production of electron-positron pairs in the superposition of oscillating electric-field pulses with largely different frequencies is studied, focussing on the impact of relative phases between the pulses. Various field configurations are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 J. Braß , D. M. Müller , S. Villalba-Chávez , K. Krajewska , C. Müller

We present the results of the calculation of the electron-positron pair creation probability by the circularly polarized electromagnetic wave during its propagation in underdense collisionless plasmas. The dependence of the probability on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. S. Bulanov

The Sauter-Schwinger process of electron-positron pair creation from vacuum, driven by a sequence of time-dependent electric-field pulses, is studied in the framework of quantum-field theoretical approach. As demonstrated by our numerical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-19 J. Z. Kamiński , M. Twardy , K. Krajewska

We consider pair creation by collision of a couple of counterpropagating electromagnetic pulses with arbitrary frequency ratio, mostly in the context of setup with collision of optical and coherent hard X- (or gamma-) ray pulses. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 A. M. Fedotov , A. A. Mironov

An indispensable ingredient for pair density wave (PDW) superconductivity is the presence of an attractive pairing interaction at finite momentum. Here, we show how this condition can be met with straightforward electron-density…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-16 Nicole Sabina Ticea , Srinivas Raghu , Yi-Ming Wu

At strong-coupling and weak-field limit, the scalar Schwinger effect is studied by the field-theoretical method of worldline instantons for dynamic fields of single-pulse and sinusoidal types. By examining the Wilson loop along the closed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-15 Chen Lan , Yi-Fan Wang , Huifang Geng , Alexander Andreev

Electron-positron pair creation due to combined nuclear Coulomb and strong laser fields is investigated for the tunneling regime. The energy spectra and angular distributions of the pair are found analytically for the first time. The energy…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Yu. Kuchiev , D. J. Robinson

The process of electron-positron pair production is investigated within the phase-space Wigner formalism. The similarities between atomic ionization and pair production for homogeneous, but time-dependent linearly polarized electric fields…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-21 Christian Kohlfürst