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We calculate exactly the quantum mechanical, temporal Wigner quasiprobability density for a single-mode, degenerate parametric amplifier for a system in the Gaussian state, viz., a displaced-squeezed thermal state. The Wigner function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-16 Moorad Alexanian

Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism is used to study chirp effects on the vacuum pair creation under inhomogeneous electric fields. For rapidly oscillating electric fields, the particle momentum spectrum is sensitive to both of the spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 Mamutjan Ababekri , Sayipjamal Dulat , B. S. Xie , Jun Zhang

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

We discuss several aspects of particle production in: (a) time dependent electric field and (b) expanding Friedmann background. In the first part of the paper, we provide an algebraic mapping between the differential equations describing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-28 Karthik Rajeev , Sumanta Chakraborty , T. Padmanabhan

We present a calculation of the imaginary part of the polarizability of a Wigner crystal using the Fluctuation-Dissipation theorem. The oscillations of the localized electrons about their equilibrium positions are treated in the harmonic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-10 Navinder Singh

In the framework of QED with a strong background, we study particle creation (the Schwinger effect) by a time-dependent inverse square electric field. To this end corresponding exact in- and out-solutions of the Dirac and Klein-Gordon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-08 T. C. Adorno , S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman

Using Lewis-Riesenfeld theory, we derive an exact non-adiabatic master equation describing the time evolution of the QED Schwinger pair production rate for a general time-varying electric field. This equation can be written equivalently as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-01-10 Sang Pyo Kim , Christian Schubert

A fully algebraic general approach is developed to treat the pairs emission and absorption in the presence of some uniform external background field. In particular, it is shown that the pairs production and annihilation operators, together…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-24 Roberto Soldati

We investigate electron-positron pair production from the quantum vacuum in spatially asymmetric, time-oscillating electric fields using the Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner (DHW) formalism. The field configuration combines spatially separated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-12 Mamat Ali Bake , Obulkasim Olugh

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

Using semiclassical WKB-methods, we calculate the rate of electron-positron pair-production from the vacuum in the presence of two external fields, a strong (space- or time-dependent) classical field and a monochromatic electromagnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-09-09 Hagen Kleinert , She-Sheng Xue

We derive a finite temperature time-dependent effective theory for the phase $\theta$ of the pairing field, which is appropriate for a 2D conducting electron system with non-retarded d-wave attraction. As for s-wave pairing the effective…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Sergei G. Sharapov , Hans Beck , Vadim M. Loktev

We have derived the Wigner equations at global equilibrium with constant vorticity but space-time dependent electromagnetic fields up to second order in semiclassical expansion. We obtain the new second-order contributions to the charge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-24 Shi-Zheng Yang , Jian-Hua Gao , Shi Pu

This work addresses the computation of the propability of fermionic particle pair production in $(d+1)-$ dimensional noncommutative Moyal space. Using the Seiberg-Witten maps that establish relations between noncommutative and commutative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-17 Dine Ousmane Samary , Emanonfi Elias N'Dolo , Mahouton Norbert Hounkonnou

Both classical and quantum damped systems give rise to complex spectra and corresponding resonant states. We investigate how resonant states, which do not belong to the Hilbert space, fit the phase space formulation of quantum mechanics. It…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Chruscinski

Wigner function is a quasi-distribution that provides a representation of the state of a quantum mechanical system in the phase space of position and momentum. In this paper we find a relation between Wigner function and appropriate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Pier A. Mello , Michael Revzen

In quantum field theory, the vacuum is a fluctuating medium which behaves as a nonlinear polarizable material. In this article, we perform the first rigorous derivation of the magnetic Euler-Heisenberg effective energy, a nonlinear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-11-06 Philippe Gravejat , Mathieu Lewin , Éric Séré

In this work, we show how the knowledge of the first few terms of the Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangian's weak-field expansion in a magnetic field background is enough to reconstruct the pair-production rate in a strong electric field background.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-30 Adrien Florio

The Wigner function is a well-known phase space distribution function with many applications in quantum mechanics. In this article, we consider an open quantum system consisting of a non-relativistic single particle interacting with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Nick Huggett , Christian Käding , Mario Pitschmann , James Read

We consider the time-independent Wigner functions of phase-space quantum mechanics (a.k.a. deformation quantization) for a Morse potential. First, we find them by solving the $\ast$-eigenvalue equations, using a method that can be applied…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-02-03 B. Belchev , M. A. Walton