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We analyze the creation of fermions and bosons from the vacuum by the exponentially decreasing in time electric field in detail. In our calculations we use QED and follow in main the consideration of particle creation effect in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 T. C. Adorno , S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman

We investigate the combined effects of carrier-envelope phase and laser pulse shape on electron-positron pair production in the presence of an external time-dependent asymmetric electric field by solving the quantum Vlasov equation. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-20 Abhinav Jangir , Anees Ahmed

We investigate the phenomenon of electron-positron pair production from vacuum in the presence of a uniform time-dependent electric field of arbitrary polarization. Taking into account the interaction with the external classical background…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-04 I. A. Aleksandrov , A. Kudlis , A. I. Klochai

Production of electron-positron pairs in two oscillating strong electric field pulses with largely different frequencies and durations is considered. In a first scenario, the influence of a low-frequency background field on pair production…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 N. Folkerts , J. Putzer , S. Villalba-Chávez , C. Müller

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…

We discuss the mechanism of production of electron-positron pairs from the vacuum in a time-varying, spatially uniform pulsed electric field. We analytically compute the probability of $(e^+ e^-) $pair production in momentum space using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-14 Deepak Sah , Manoranjan P. Singh

The possibility that a static magnetic field may decay through production of electron positron pairs is studied. The conclusion is that this decay cannot happen through production of single pairs, as in the electric case, but only through…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Giorgio Calucci

The spectrum of electrons and positrons originating from vacuum decay occurring in the collision of two non-colinear laser pulses is obtained. It displays high energy, highly-collimated particle bunches traveling in a direction separate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-22 Lance Labun , Johann Rafelski

Electron-positron pair production in space- and time-dependent electromagnetic fields is investigated. Especially, the influence of a time-dependent, inhomogeneous magnetic field on the particle momenta and the total particle yield is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-16 Christian Kohlfürst , Reinhard Alkofer

Treating the production of electron and positron pairs by a strong electric field from the vacuum as a quantum tunneling process we derive, in semiclassical approximation, a general expression for the pair production rate in a $z$-dependent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-18 Hagen Kleinert , Remo Ruffini , She-Sheng Xue

The Sauter-Schwinger effect predicts the creation of electron-positron pairs out of the quantum vacuum by a strong and slowly varying electric field. This effect can be dynamically assisted by an additional weaker time-dependent field,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-28 Greger Torgrimsson , Christian Schneider , Johannes Oertel , Ralf Schützhold

We investigate the quantum kinetic approach to pair production from vacuum by time-dependent electric field. Equivalence between this approach and the more familiar S-matrix approach is explicitly established for both scalar and fermion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-02 A. M. Fedotov , E. G. Gelfer , K. Yu. Korolev , S. A. Smolyansky

Production of electron-positron pairs from the quantum vacuum polarized by the superposition of a strong and a perturbative oscillating electric-field mode is studied. Our outcomes rely on a nonequilibrium quantum field theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-09 Ibrahim Akal , Selym Villalba-Chávez , Carsten Müller

We discuss electron-positron pair-production by super-intense, short laser pulses off the physical vacuum state locally deformed by (stripped) nuclei with large nuclear charges. Consequences of non-perturbative vacuum polarisation resulting…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Klaus Dietz , Michael Proebsting

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 investigate the finite-time behavior of pair production from the vacuum by a time-dependent Sauter pulsed electric field. By examining the temporal behavior of the single-particle distribution function, we observe oscillatory patterns in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-09 Deepak Sah , Manoranjan P. Singh

Electron-positron pair production from vacuum in spatially inhomogeneous electric fields with quadratically symmetric chirp is studied within the real-time Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism. The reduced momentum spectrum and the reduced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-17 Le Le Chen , Xiao-Ting Xu , Rong-An-Tang , Xue-Ren Hong , Lie-Juan Li , Bai-Song Xie

Damping of an electromagnetic wave in a strong magnetic field is analyzed in the kinematic region near the threshold of electron-positron pair production. Damping of the electromagnetic field is shown to be noticeably nonexponential in this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-15 N. V. Mikheev , M. V. Chistyakov

The production of electron-positron pairs in a vacuum neutron star magnetosphere is investigated for both low (compared to the Schwinger one) and high magnetic fields. The case of a strong longitudinal electric field where the produced…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-02 Ya. N. Istomin , D. N. Sob'yanin

Electron-positron pair production in spatially and temporally inhomogeneous electric and magnetic fields is studied within the Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism (quantum kinetic theory) through computing the corresponding Wigner functions.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-13 Christian Kohlfürst