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The Schwinger effect in the presence of instantons is considered in this paper. Using AdS/CFT correspondence in the near horizon limit of the D3+D($-1$)-brane background, we calculate the total potential of a quark-antiquark pair in an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-15 Leila Shahkarami , Majid Dehghani , Parvin Dehghani

Using the Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner (DHW) formalism, e?ects of asymmetric pulse shape on the generation of electron-positron pairs in three typical polarized fields, i.e., the linear, middle elliptical and circular ones, are investigated. Two…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Obulkasim Olugh , Zi-Liang Li , Bai-Song Xie

The process of electron-positron pair creation and oscillation in uniform electric field is studied, taking into account Pauli exclusion principle. Generally, we find that pair creation is suppressed, hence coherent oscillations occur on…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 Mikalai Prakapenia , Gregory Vereshchagin

The production of electron-positron pairs from vacuum by counterpropagating laser beams of linear polarization is calculated. In contrast to the usual approximate approach, the spatial dependence and magnetic component of the laser field…

Recent years, multiphoton pair production has become one of the most promising approaches to investigate the Schwinger effect. However, the production and evolution of chirality, a key topic in the study of this effect, has not been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-30 Chengpeng Yu

The probability-generating function of the number of electron-positron pairs produced in a uniform electric field is constructed. The mean and variance of the numbers of pairs are calculated, and analytical expressions for the probability…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 M. I. Krivoruchenko

A new mechanism for the production of electron-positron pairs from the interaction of a laser field and a fully stripped diatomic molecule in the tunneling regime is presented. When the laser field is turned off, the Dirac operator has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-03-18 François Fillion-Gourdeau , Emmanuel Lorin , André D. Bandrauk

The problem of the backreaction during the process of electron-positron pair production by a circularly polarized electromagnetic wave propagating in a plasma is investigated. A model based on the relativistic Boltzmann-Vlasov equation with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 S. S. Bulanov , A. M. Fedotov , F. Pegoraro

The process of electron positron pair annihilation, driven by strong fields (Inverse Schwinger mechanism) and high-frequency waves, is studied using the Dirac Heisenberg Wigner formalism. In an electron positron plasma, the presence of a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Haidar Al-Naseri

We investigated the spin effect on the vacuum pair production by Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner (DHW) formalism under two-color counter-rotating electric fields. We primarily studied the combined effects of the field asymmetry, time delay, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-19 Zhao-Yuan Chen , Orkash Amat , Jin-hui Bai , Mamat Ali Bake

In a vicinity of the Fermi surface, graphene layers with bandgaps allow for closely simulating the vacuum of quantum electrodynamics and, thus, its yet unverified strong-field phenomenology with accessible field strengths. This striking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 Ibrahim Akal , Reinhold Egger , Carsten Müller , Selym Villalba-Chávez

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 investigate the electron-positron pair production process in an oscillating field with modulated amplitude in quantum kinetic formalism. By comparing the number density in field with and without modulation, we find that the pair…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 Ibrahim Sitiwaldi , Bai-Song Xie

Ultra strong electromagnetic fields can lead to spontaneous creation of single or multiple electron-positron pairs. A quantum field theoretical treatment of the pair creation process combined with numerical methods provides a description of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-26 Anton Wöllert , Heiko Bauke , Christoph H. Keitel

We explore Schwinger pair production in rotating time-dependent electric fields using the real-time DHW formalism. We determine the time evolution of the Wigner function as well as asymptotic particle distributions neglecting back-reactions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-23 Alexander Blinne , Holger Gies

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

Ultra-cold atoms in specifically designed optical lattices can be used to mimic the many-particle Hamiltonian describing electrons and positrons in an external electric field. This facilitates the experimental simulation of (so far…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-28 Nikodem Szpak , Ralf Schützhold

According to the Schwinger mechanism, a uniform electric field brings about pair productions in vacuum; the relationship between the production rate and the electric field is different, depending on the dimension of the system. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-29 Kazuhiro Yokota , Nobuyuki Imoto

The rate of $e^+e^-$ pair creation by external electric field in the presence of an incident photon beam is calculated for the photon energy far below the threshold, $\omega \ll m$, and the field strength small as compared to the critical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-12 A. Monin , M. B. Voloshin

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