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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 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

The bound-free channel of electron-positron pair production by a highly charged bare ion in the presence of a strong constant crossed electromagnetic field is studied. To calculate the pair production rate, two different methods are applied…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 S. Remme , A. Eckey , S. Villalba-Chávez , A. B. Voitkiv , C. Müller

We investigate Schwinger pair production in spatially inhomogeneous electric backgrounds. A critical point for the onset of pair production can be approached by fields that marginally provide sufficient electrostatic energy for an off-shell…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-09 Holger Gies , Greger Torgrimsson

We present the calculation of the probability production of an electron-positron pair in the presence of a strong magnetic field with time-varying strength. The calculation takes into account the presence of a strong, constant and uniform…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-01 Antonino Di Piazza , Giorgio Calucci

The resonant process of electron-positron pairproduction by an electron in a subcritical magnetic field has been studied when the pair is produced to exited Landau levels. The spin dependency of the process rate has been analyzed. In the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-14 O. Novak

Vortex pattern formation in electron-positron pair creation from vacuum by a time-dependent electric field of linear polarization is analyzed. It is demonstrated that in such scenario the momentum distributions of created particles exhibit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 A. Bechler , F. Cajiao Vélez , K. Krajewska , J. Z. Kamiński

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

We investigate electron-positron pair production in pulse-shaped electric background fields using a non-Markovian quantum kinetic equation. We identify a pulse-length range for subcritical fields still in the nonperturbative regime where…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-18 Florian Hebenstreit , Reinhard Alkofer , Holger Gies

Exact analytical solutions are presented for the time evolution of the density of pairs produced in the QED vacuum by a uniform electric field that is adiabatically switched on starting at minus infinity. Pair production is described by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-09-24 Iwo Bialynicki-Birula , Łukasz Rudnicki , Albert Wienczek

Sauter-Schwinger pair creation in electromagnetic fields is a fundamental prediction of QED and one of the motivations for the present efforts in constructing super-strong lasers. I will give a historical review of the subject, and then…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-21 Christian Schubert

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

Electron-positron pair production in an arbitrary polarized ultrastrong laser field is investigated in the first order perturbation approximation in which the Volkov states are used for convenient calculation of scattering amplitude and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Liang-Yong He , Bai-Song Xie , Xin-Heng Guo , Hong-Yu Wang

The vacuum of quantum electrodynamics is unstable against the formation of many-body states in the presence of an external electric field, manifesting itself as the creation of electron-positron pairs (Schwinger effect). This effect has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-01 Florian Hebenstreit

The electron-positron pair production by an electron in a strong magnetic field near the process threshold is considered. The process is shown to be more probable if the spin of the initial electron is oriented along the field. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-21 O. P. Novak , R. I. Kholodov , P. I. Fomin

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

We study particle creation in a single pulse of an electric field in scalar quantum electrodynamics. We first identify parameter regions of the theory where the dynamical pair creation and Schwinger mechanism respectively dominate each…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-29 Takashi Arai

We investigate electron-positron pair creation from the vacuum in a pulsed electric background field. Employing the Sauter-type pulsed field $E(t)=E_0 {\rm sech}^2 (t/\tau)$ with height $E_0$ and width $\tau$, we demonstrate explicitly the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-30 Hidetoshi Taya , Hirotsugu Fujii , Kazunori Itakura

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

We investigate the phenomenon of electron-positron pair production from vacuum in the presence of a strong electric field of circular polarization. By means of a nonperturbative approach based on the quantum kinetic equations (QKEs), we…

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