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We study constant classical electric fields and the Schwinger effect in de Sitter space, with potential implications for magnetogenesis and inflationary dark matter production. Treating the photon as a dynamical field, we show that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-20 Mar Bastero-Gil , Paulo B. Ferraz , António Torres Manso , Lorenzo Ubaldi , Roberto Vega-Morales

In this proceeding we consider a massive charged scalar field in a uniform electric field background in a de~Sitter spacetime (dS). We compute the in-vacuum expectation value of the trace of the energy-momentum tensor for the created…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-23 Ehsan Bavarsad , Sang Pyo Kim , Clément Stahl , She-Sheng Xue

The exact solution of the Schwinger model with compact gauge group U(1) is presented. The compactification is imposed by demanding that the only surviving true electromagnetic degree of freedom has angular character. Not surprinsingly, this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Roman Linares , Luis F. Urrutia , J. David Vergara

We explore Schwinger effect of spin 1/2 charged particles with static electric field in 1+3 dimensional de Sitter spacetime. We analytically calculate the vacuum expectation value of the spinor current which is induced by the produced…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Takahiro Hayashinaka , Tomohiro Fujita , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

Non-Abelian gauge fields may exist during inflation. We study the Schwinger effect by an $SU(2)$ gauge field coupled to a charged scalar doublet in a (quasi) de Sitter background and the possible backreaction of the generated charged…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Kaloian D. Lozanov , Azadeh Maleknejad , Eiichiro Komatsu

A spatially homogeneous, time-dependent, electric field can produce charged particle pairs from the vacuum. When the electric field is constant, the mean number of pairs which are produced depends on the electric field and the coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-26 Karthik Rajeev , Sumanta Chakraborty , T. Padmanabhan

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

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

We study classical background electric fields and the Schwinger effect in de Sitter space. We show that having a constant electric field in de Sitter requires the photon to have a tachyonic mass proportional to the Hubble scale. This has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-05 Mar Bastero-Gil , Paulo B. Ferraz , António Torres Manso , Lorenzo Ubaldi , Roberto Vega-Morales

We employ a self consistent framework to study the backreaction effects of particle creation in the coupled semiclassical dynamics of a quantum complex scalar field and a classical electric field in both (1 + 1) and (1 + 3) dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-26 Shagun Kaushal , Suprit Singh

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

Pair-creation of charged particles in a strong gauge-field background - the renowned Schwinger effect - can strongly alter the efficiency of gauge-field production during axion inflation. It is therefore crucial to have a clear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-14 Richard von Eckardstein , Kai Schmitz , Oleksandr Sobol

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

We semiclassically investigate Schwinger pair production for pulsed rotating electric fields depending on time. To do so we solve the Dirac equation for two-component fields in a WKB-like approximation. The result shows that for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-05 Eckhard Strobel , She-Sheng Xue

We study the probability distribution of the number of particle and antiparticle pairs produced via the Schwinger effect when a uniform but time-dependent electric field is applied to noninteracting scalars or spinors initially at a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-08 Yusuke Nishida

Pair production in inhomogeneous electric fields with symmetrical frequency chirp is studied numerically using the Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism. We investigate high- and low-frequency modes and consider two carrier envelope phases.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-21 Melike Mohamedsedik , Lie-Juan Li , B. S. Xie

In this work we consider two complex scalar fields distinguished by their masses coupled to constant background electric and magnetic fields in the $(3+1)$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime and subsequently investigate a few measures…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-26 Sourav Bhattacharya , Shankhadeep Chakrabortty , Hironori Hoshino , Shagun Kaushal

We consider the particle-antiparticle pairs produced by both a strong electric field and de Sitter curvature. We investigate in 1 + 1 D the backreaction of the pairs on the electromagnetic field. To do so we describe the canonical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-15 Clément Stahl , She-Sheng Xue

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 show that electric fields in compactified spaces may produce Kaluza-Klein (KK) particles even when the energy of electric fields is smaller than KK scale. As an illustrating example, we consider a charged massless complex scalar coupled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-04 Yusuke Yamada