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The production probability of an $e^--e^+$ pair in the presence of a strong, uniform and slowly varying magnetic field is calculated by taking into account the presence of a background gravitational field. The curvature of the spacetime…

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

The effects of electric field polarizations on pair production from a vacuum are investigated numerically by employing the real-time Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism. For few-cycle fields, it is found that the interference pattern in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Z. L. Li , D. Lu , B. S. Xie

We study electron-positron pair creation {from} the Dirac vacuum induced by a strong and slowly varying electric field (Schwinger effect) which is superimposed by a weak and rapidly changing electromagnetic field (dynamical pair creation).…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ralf Schützhold , Holger Gies , Gerald Dunne

The process of electron-positron pair creation through multi-photon absorption in a space-time dependent electric field is analyzed using computational quantum field theory. Our findings reveal two distinct pair creation channels: the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-27 C. K. Li , X. X. Zhou , Q. Chen , B. An , Y. J. Li , N. S. Lin , Y. Wan

We study electron-positron pair production within two counter-propagating, circularly polarized electromagnetic fields through the Wigner formalism. We numerically generate high-resolution momentum maps to perform a detailed spectroscopic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-05 Christian Kohlfürst

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

Using a quantum kinetic equation coupled to Maxwell's equation we study the possibility that focused beams at proposed X-ray free electron laser facilities can generate electric field strengths large enough to cause spontaneous…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Alkofer , M. B. Hecht , C. D. Roberts , S. M. Schmidt , D. V. Vinnik

Pair production in a constant electric field is closely analogous to bubble nucleation in a false vacuum. The classical trajectories of the pairs are Lorentz invariant, but it appears that this invariance should be broken by the nucleation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-25 Jaume Garriga , Sugumi Kanno , Misao Sasaki , Jiro Soda , Alexander Vilenkin

The possibility to observe vacuum electron-positron pair creation due to a powerful optical laser pulse is discussed. We employ a quantum kinetic formulation of the problem with a source term describing the vacuum pair production in a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. B. Blaschke , A. V. Prozorkevich , S. A. Smolyansky , A. V. Tarakanov

The spontaneous production of electron-positron pairs from the vacuum--in a field configuration composed of a high-frequency electric mode of weak intensity and a strong constant electric field--is investigated. Asymptotic expressions for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-25 Selym Villalba-Chávez , Carsten Müller

The quantum vacuum is unstable under the influence of an external electric field and decays into pairs of charged particles, a process which is known as the Schwinger pair production. We propose and demonstrate that this electric field can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Zahra Ebadi , Behrouz Mirza

Strong enough electric field is predicted to spontaneously create electron-positron pairs in vacuum via Schwinger effect. A somewhat similar effect is predicted to occur in sufficiently strong inhomogeneous gravitational fields. However,…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-31 Igor I. Smolyaninov

We propose a new Sauter-like field model with combinatorial multiple potentials consisting of a deep slow-varying and some shallow fast-varying potentials. The dynamically assisted Sauter-Schwinger effect on the pair production is found by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-12 Lie-Juan Li , Li Wang , Melike Mohamedsedik , Li-Na Hu , Bai-Song Xie

Effect of spatially oscillating fields on the electron-positron pair production is studied numerically and analytically when the work done by the electric field over its spatial extent is smaller than twice the electron mass. Under large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-11 Orkash Amat , Li-Na Hu , Mamat Ali Bake , Melike Mohamedsedik , B. S. Xie

The Sauter-Schwinger process of electron-positron pair creation from vacuum, driven by a sequence of time-dependent electric-field pulses, is studied in the framework of quantum-field theoretical approach. As demonstrated by our numerical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-19 J. Z. Kamiński , M. Twardy , K. Krajewska

We numerically investigate the temporal behavior and the structure of longitudinal momentum spectrum and the field polarity effect on pair production in pulsed electric fields in scalar quantum electrodynamics (QED). Using the evolution…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-07-24 Sang Pyo Kim , Hyung Won Lee , Remo Ruffini

Researches on the electron-positron pair production in the presence of the intense laser field are reviewed, motivated by the theoretical importance of the nonperturbative QED problem and the worldwide development of the strong laser…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Huayu Hu

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

The process of electron-positron pair production by a photon with subsequent annihilation to a single photon in a strong magnetic field has been studied. The general amplitude has been calculated and the process rate have been found in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-14 M. M. Diachenko , O. P. Novak , R. I. Kholodov

We discuss pair creation in a strong laser background. Using lightfront field theory, we show that all the physics is contained in the lightfront momentum transfer from the laser, and probe, to the produced pair. The dependence of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-26 Thomas Heinzl , Anton Ilderton , Mattias Marklund