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The Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism is employed to investigate electron-positron pair production in cylindrically symmetric but otherwise spatially inhomogeneous, oscillating electric fields. The oscillation frequencies are hereby tuned…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-07 Christian Kohlfürst , Reinhard Alkofer

Recently the dynamically assisted Schwinger mechanism, i.e., electron-positron pair production from vacuum by a combination of laser pulses with different time scales has been proposed. The corresponding results, which suggest that the rate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-18 Markus Orthaber , Florian Hebenstreit , Reinhard Alkofer

The momentum signatures in nonperturbative multiphoton pair production for general elliptic polarization electric fields are investigated by employing the real-time Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism. For a linearly polarized electric field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-17 Z. L. Li , D. Lu , B. S. Xie , B. F. Shen , L. B. Fu , J. Liu

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 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

The process of electron-positron pair production is investigated within the phase-space Wigner formalism. The similarities between atomic ionization and pair production for homogeneous, but time-dependent linearly polarized electric fields…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-21 Christian Kohlfürst

Using the Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner (DHW) formalism, e?ects of asymmetric pulse shape on the generation of electron-positron pairs in three typical polarized fields, i.e., the linear, middle elliptical and circular ones, are investigated. Two…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Obulkasim Olugh , Zi-Liang Li , Bai-Song Xie

Using a state-of-the-art numerical scheme, we show that the Higgs mode under excitation exhibits chirped oscillations and exponential decay when fluctuations are included. This is in stark contrast to conventional BCS collisionless dynamics…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-23 Thomas Blommel , Jason Kaye , Yuta Murakami , Emanuel Gull , Denis Golež

Electron-positron pair production is considered for many-center systems with multiple bare nuclei immersed in a constant electric field. It is shown that there are two distinct regimes where the pair production rate is enhanced. At small…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-09 François Fillion-Gourdeau , Emmanuel Lorin , André D. Bandrauk

Using one-dimensional semiconductor Bloch equations, we investigate the multiband dynamics of electrons in a cutoff extension scheme employing an infrared pulse with additional UV injection. An extended three-step model is firstly validated…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-01 Yue Lang , Zhaoyang Peng , Zengxiu Zhao

The Schwinger mechanism, the production of charged particle-antiparticle pairs in a macroscopic external electric field, is derived for 2+1 dimensional theories. The rate of pair production per unit area for four species of massless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-23 Danielle Allor , Thomas D. Cohen , David A. McGady

We utilize various techniques to characterize the residual phase modulation of a fiber-based Mach-Zehnder electro-optical intensity modulator. A heterodyne technique is used to directly measure the phase change due to a given change in…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 C. E. Rogers , J. L. Carini , J. A. Pechkis , P. L. Gould

The simplest three-level system exhibiting electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) exhibits an effective conjugation symmetry as well as a permutation symmetry. Breaking conjugation symmetry leads to a distinct chirp asymmetry; the…

The generation of the narrowband strong-correlated biphotons via spontaneous four-wave mixing can be effectively controlled and enhanced by an additional driving field which drives a transition with its upper level being a Rydberg state. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-21 Ke-Shuang Cui , Xiao-Jun Zhang , Jin-Hui Wu

We study electron-positron pair production by the combination of a strong, constant electric field and a thermal background. We show that this process is similar to dynamically assisted Schwinger pair production, where the strong field is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-16 Greger Torgrimsson

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

In this paper we study QED on the noncommutative space in the constant electro-magnetic field background. Using the explicit solutions of the noncommutative version of Dirac equation in such background, we show that there are well-defined…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-07 N. Chair , M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari

Interferometric measurements of high-harmonics induced by multiple laser fields in an emerging field of research that promises optimized yield of harmonics, and time and space-resolved nonlinear spectroscopy. Most of the measurements have…

The recently proposed affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) modulation has been considered as a promising technology for narrowband doubly-dispersive channels. However, the time-scaling effects, i.e., pulse widening and pulse…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Xiangxiang Li , Haiyan Wang , Yao Ge , Xiaohong Shen , Yong Liang Guan , Miaowen Wen , Chau Yuen

We study the Schwinger mechanism in QCD i.e., the quark-antiquark pair production rate $\Gamma$ in the presence of pure electric field strength $eE$, for a higher number of colors $N_c$ and flavors $N_f$. In this context, our unified…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-28 Aftab Ahmad , Akif Farooq