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We consider a system of ultracold atoms in an optical lattice as a quantum simulator for electron-positron pair production in quantum electrodynamics (QED). For a setup in one spatial dimension, we investigate the nonequilibrium phenomenon…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-08-09 V. Kasper , F. Hebenstreit , M. Oberthaler , J. Berges

Electron-positron pairs are produced through the Breit-Wheeler process when energetic photons traverse electromagnetic fields of sufficient strength. Here we consider a possible experimental geometry for observation of pair creation in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-03-23 T. G. Blackburn , M. Marklund

Modern laser systems are able to generate short and intense laser pulses ionizing matter in the poorly explored barrier-suppression regime. Field ionization in this regime is studied analytically and numerically. For analytical studies,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-11-15 I. Yu. Kostyukov , A. A. Golovanov

Recently the so called Spontaneous Pair Creation of electron positron pairs in a strong external field has been rigorously established. We give here the heuristic core of the proof, since the results differ from those given in earlier…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Pickl , D. Duerr

Within the theory of vacuum creation of an $e^{+}e^{-}$ - plasma in the strong electric fields acting in the focal spot of counter-propagating laser beams we compare predictions on the basis of different WKB-type approximations with results…

We consider pair production phenomena in spatially homogeneous strong electric fields. We focus on spinor QED in two-dimensions and discuss the potential ambiguity in the adiabatic order assignment for the electromagnetic potential required…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-28 Antonio Ferreiro , Jose Navarro-Salas , Silvia Pla

Production of electron-positron pairs in two oscillating strong electric field pulses with largely different frequencies and durations is considered. In a first scenario, the influence of a low-frequency background field on pair production…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 N. Folkerts , J. Putzer , S. Villalba-Chávez , C. Müller

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

The dynamically assisted pair creation (Schwinger effect) is considered for the superposition of two periodic electric fields acting a finite time interval. We find a strong enhancement by orders of magnitude caused by a weak field with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-30 Andreas Otto , Daniel Seipt , David Blaschke , Burkhard Kampfer , Stanislav Alexandrovich Smolyansky

The rate of pair production of open strings in general uniform electromagnetic fields is calculated in various space-time dimensions. The corrections with respect to the case of pure electric backgrounds are displayed. In particular, a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Ciprian Acatrinei

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

We quantum-simulated particle-antiparticle pair production with a bosonic quantum gas in an optical lattice by emulating the requisite 1d Dirac equation and uniform electric field. We emulated field strengths far in excess of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-26 Alina M. Piñeiro Escalera , Dina Genkina , Mingwu Lu , I. B. Spielman

Pair creation is a fundamental prediction of quantum field theory in curved spacetimes. While classical aspects of this phenomenon have been observed, the experimental confirmation of its quantum origin remains elusive. In this article, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-28 Ivan Agullo , Adrià Delhom , Álvaro Parra-López

We study the Schwinger electron-positron pair production by a strong electromagnetic field of two colliding e-polarized laser pulses with a relative phase shift $\Psi$. The spatio-temporal distribution of created pairs is very sensitive to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-03 Chitradip Banerjee , Manoranjan P. Singh , Alexander M. Fedotov

Electron-positron pair production from vacuum in a strong electric field oscillating in time is studied. The field is assumed to consist of two consecutive pulses, with variable time delay in between. Pair production probabilities are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 L. F. Granz , O. Mathiak , S. Villalba-Chávez , C. Müller

Pairs of particles of definite total and relative angular momentum provide a natural description for a two dimensional electron gas in a strong magnetic field. Two body operators take a simple form when expressed in terms of pair creation…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Marsili

A quantum kinetic equation has been derived for the description of pair production in a time-dependent homogeneous electric field $E(t)$. As a source term, the Schwinger mechanism for particle creation is incorporated. Possible particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. A. Smolyansky , G. Roepke , S. Schmidt , D. Blaschke , V. D. Toneev , A. V. Prozorkevich

The bound-free channel of electron-positron pair production by a highly charged bare ion in the presence of a strong constant crossed electromagnetic field is studied. To calculate the pair production rate, two different methods are applied…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 S. Remme , A. Eckey , S. Villalba-Chávez , A. B. Voitkiv , C. Müller

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 production of electron-positron pairs from vacuum by counterpropagating laser beams of linear polarization is calculated. In contrast to the usual approximate approach, the spatial dependence and magnetic component of the laser field…