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In this paper, we extend the study of bremsstrahlung photon production in a quark-gluon plasma to the cases of soft static photons and hard real photons. The general framework of this study is the effective perturbative expansion based on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Aurenche , F. Gelis , R. Kobes , H. Zaraket

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

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 study the electron-positron pair production process in strong background electric fields with spatio-temporal inhomogeneity in the time-dependent Basis Light-front Quantization approach. We calculate the observables such as the invariant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-06 Zhiyu Lei , Bolun Hu , Xingbo Zhao

We study the pair production, string breaking, and hadronization of a receding electron-positron pair using the bosonized version of the massive Schwinger model in quantum electrodynamics in 1+1 space-time dimensions. Specifically, we study…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-02 Laura Batini , Lara Kuhn , Jürgen Berges , Stefan Floerchinger

Near-future high-intensity lasers offer prospects for the observation of nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production in an overcritical field regime, where the quantum nonlinearity parameter substantially exceeds unity. This experimentally yet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-12 I. Elsner , A. Golub , S. Villalba-Chávez , C. Müller

The cross section for coherent pair production by linearly polarised photons in the 20-170 GeV energy range was measured for photon aligned incidence on ultra-high quality diamond and germanium crystals. The theoretical description of…

Quantum thermometry refers to the study of measuring ultra-low temperatures in quantum systems. The precision of such a quantum thermometer is limited by the degree to which temperature can be estimated by quantum measurements. More…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-15 Sebastian Deffner

We investigate the phenomenon of electron-positron pair production from vacuum in the presence of a strong electric field superimposed by a weak but fast varying pulse which substantially increases the total particle yield. We employ a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-13 I. A. Aleksandrov , G. Plunien , V. M. Shabaev

Coupling a system to two different baths can lead to novel phenomena escaping the constraints of thermal equilibrium. In quantum materials inside optical cavities, this feature can be exploited as electrons and cavity-photons are easily…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-12 R. Flores-Calderón , Md Mursalin Islam , Michele Pini , Francesco Piazza

A systematic investigation of hard thermal photon spectra from central ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions is presented with emphasis on the effects of bremsstrahlung processes in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Bremsstrahlung photon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank Daniel Steffen

Production of particle-antiparticle pairs by a high-energy probe photon propagating through a high-intensity laser field is considered in the nonperturbative interaction regime. The laser field consists of a strong low-frequency and a weak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Martin J. A. Jansen , Carsten Müller

We analytically investigate the Schwinger pair production in the de Sitter background by using {\em the uniform asymptotic approximation method}, and show that the equation of motion in general has two turning points, and the nature of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-12 Jia-Jia Geng , Bao-Fei Li , Jiro Soda , Anzhong Wang , Qiang Wu , Tao Zhu

We investigate entropy of electron-positron pair production in time-dependent Sauter pulse electric field. Both cases of pair longitudinal momentum only and full momentum consideration are examined. We further examine three types of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-19 Zhi-Hang Yao , Hong-Hao Fan , Lie-Juan Li , Hai-Bo Sang , Bai-Song Xie

Spontaneous pair production from background fields or spacetimes is one of the most prominent phenomena predicted by quantum field theory. The Schwinger mechanism of production of charged pairs by a strong electric field and the Hawking…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-28 Sang Pyo Kim

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 consider the possibility of experimental verification of vacuum e^+e^- pair creation at the focus of two counter-propagating optical laser beams with intensities 10^{20}-10^{22} W/cm^2, achievable with present-day petawatt lasers, and…

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

We study electron-positron pair creation by a strong and slowly varying electric field, assisted by a weaker and more rapidly changing field (e.g., in the keV regime) plus an additional high-energy (say MeV) photon. It turns out that this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-21 Greger Torgrimsson , Johannes Oertel , Ralf Schützhold

The spontaneous pair production of charged scalars in a near extremal Kerr-Newman (KN) black hole is analytically studied. It is shown that the existence condition for the pair production is equivalent to the violation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Chiang-Mei Chen , Sang Pyo Kim , Jia-Rui Sun , Fu-Yi Tang