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We investigate strong field vacuum effects using a phase space approach based on the Wigner formalism. We calculate the Wigner function in a strong null-field background exactly, using lightfront field theory. The Wigner function exhibits…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-05 Florian Hebenstreit , Anton Ilderton , Mattias Marklund , Jens Zamanian

Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, we calculate the vacuum decay rate for the Schwinger effect in confining large $N_{c}$ gauge theories. The instability is induced by the quark antiquark pair creation triggered by strong electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-30 Koji Hashimoto , Takashi Oka , Akihiko Sonoda

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 quantum field theory, entanglement entropy under spatial bipartitioning serves as a powerful information-theoretic probe of quantum correlations. In this work, we present the first comprehensive numerical study of the dynamical evolution…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-22 S. Mahesh Chandran , Karthik Rajeev

Electron-positron pair production from vacuum in external electric fields with space and time dependencies is studied numerically using real time Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism. The influence of spatial focusing scale of the electric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-17 Mamutjan Ababekri , Bai-Song Xie , Jun Zhang

Schwinger pair production is analyzed in a BPST instanton background and in its SL$(2,\mathbb{C})$ complex extension for complex scalar particles. A non-Abelian extension of the worldline instanton method is utilized, wherein Wong's…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-12 Patrick Copinger , Pablo Morales

We study the Schwinger effect in a system of non-parallel D1-branes for the bosonic strings using the path integral formalism. We drive the string pair creation rate by calculating the one loop vacuum amplitude of the setup in presence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-04 A. Jahan , D. Kamani

Using the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model in the D0-D4 background, we holographically compute the vacuum decay rate of the Schwinger effect in this model. Our calculation contains the influence of the D0-brane density which could be identified…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-12 Wenhe Cai , Kang-le Li , Si-wen Li

In a four dimensional inflation theory, a persistent electric field can be established by making the inflaton coupled to the gauge field like a dilaton. We investigate the pair production of scalar particles in the inflaton-driven electric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Hiroyuki Kitamoto

In the presence of a strong electric field, the vacuum is unstable to the production of pairs of charged particles -- the Schwinger effect. The created pairs extract energy from the electric field, resulting in nontrivial backreaction. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-10 Samuel E. Gralla , Morifumi Mizuno

In this study, we investigate the fermionic Schwinger effect in the presence of a constant magnetic field within $(1+3)-$dimensional Minkowski spacetime, considering both constant and pulsed electric fields. We analyze the correlations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-28 Shagun Kaushal

Employing the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism, we formulate an effective field theory for s-wave superconducting phase transition, where the dynamical variables consist of electromagnetic gauge field and complex scalar order parameter.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-11 Yanyan Bu , Zexin Yang

We study electron-positron pair creation by a strong and constant electric field superimposed with a weaker transversal plane wave which is incident perpendicularly (or under some angle). Comparing the fully non-perturbative approach based…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-16 Greger Torgrimsson , Christian Schneider , Ralf Schützhold

We revisit the efficiency of Schwinger mechanism in creating charged pairs during inflation. We consider a minimal setup of inflation in which the inflaton field is a complex scalar field charged under a $U(1)$ gauge field. There is a time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-29 Soroush Shakeri , Mohammad Ali Gorji , Hassan Firouzjahi

We study electron and positron pair production from the vacuum by a strong slow electric field superimposed by a weak fast electric field pointing in an arbitrary direction as a perturbation (the dynamically assisted Schwinger mechanism).…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-30 Xu-Guang Huang , Hidetoshi Taya

We consider a theory of scalar QED on a spatially compact 1+1-dimensional spacetime. By considering a constant electric field pointing down the compact dimension, we compute the quantum effective action by integrating out the scalar degrees…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-29 Prasant Samantray , Suprit Singh

We study the vacuum pair production by a time-dependent strong electric field based on the exact WKB analysis. We identify the generic structure of a Stokes graph for systems with the vacuum pair production and show that the number of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Hidetoshi Taya , Toshiaki Fujimori , Tatsuhiro Misumi , Muneto Nitta , Norisuke Sakai

A field theory of a Schr\"{o}dinger type complex scalar field of Cooper pair, a U(1) gauge field of electromagnetism, and a neutral scalar field of gapless acoustic phonon is proposed for superconductivity of s-waves. Presence of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-08 Yoonbai Kim , SeungJun Jeon , Hanwool Song

We study vacuum electron-positron pair production in a spatially uniform bichromatic electric field within the quantum-kinetic framework for fermions. The external background models the superposition of two counterpropagating circularly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-19 A. I. Baksheev , V. A. Bokhan , A. Kudlis , I. A. Aleksandrov

We study tunneling pair creation of W-Bosons by an external electric field on the Coulomb branch of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We use AdS/CFT holography to find a generalization of Schwinger's formula for the pair production rate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Gordon W. Semenoff , Konstantin Zarembo