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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

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

We investigate pair creation by an electric field in four-dimensional de Sitter space. The expectation value of the induced current is computed, using the method of adiabatic regularization. Under strong electric fields the behavior of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-06 Takeshi Kobayashi , Niayesh Afshordi

We consider a charged scalar field in a $D$-dimensional de Sitter spacetime and investigate pair creation by a Schwinger mechanism in a constant electric field background. Using a semiclassical approximation the current of the created pairs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-11 Ehsan Bavarsad , Clément Stahl , She-Sheng Xue

In de Sitter space, the current induced by an electric field in vacuum is known to feature certain peculiarities, such as infrared hyperconductivity for light bosons in weak electric fields. Moreover, negative conductivity has been claimed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-11 Mariona Banyeres , Guillem Domènech , Jaume Garriga

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

We study the fermionic Schwinger effect in two dimensional de Sitter spacetime. To do so we first present a method to semiclassically compute the number of pairs created per momentum mode for general time dependent fields. In addition the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-13 Clément Stahl , Eckhard Strobel , She-Sheng Xue

We consider Schwinger pair production in 1+1 dimensional de Sitter space, filled with a constant electric field $E$. This can be thought of as a model for describing false vacuum decay beyond the semiclassical approximation, where pairs of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Markus B. Fröb , Jaume Garriga , Sugumi Kanno , Misao Sasaki , Jiro Soda , Takahiro Tanaka , Alexander Vilenkin

We investigate the effect of a constant magnetic field background on the scalar QED pair production in a four-dimensional de Sitter spacetime ($\dsf$). We have obtained the pair production rate which agrees with the known Schwinger result…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-31 Ehsan Bavarsad , Sang Pyo Kim , Clément Stahl , She-Sheng Xue

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

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

During a de Sitter stage of expansion the spectator fields of different spin are constrained by the critical density bound and by further requirements determined by their specific physical nature. The evolution of spectator electric fields…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-18 Massimo Giovannini

We explore the enhancement of an electromagnetic field in an inflationary background with an anti-conductive plasma of scalar particles. The scalar particles are created by Schwinger effect in curved spacetime and backreact to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-30 Clement Stahl

We consider vacuum polarization from massless scalar electrodynamics in de Sitter inflation. The theory exhibits a 3+1 dimensional analogue of the Schwinger mechanism in which a photon mass is dynamically generated. The mechanism is generic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 Tomislav Prokopec , Ola Tornkvist , Richard Woodard

We considered a new renormalization condition for the vacuum expectation values of the scalar and spinor currents induced by a homogeneous and constant electric field background in de Sitter spacetime. Following a semiclassical argument,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-23 Takahiro Hayashinaka , She-Sheng Xue

The covariant and gauge invariant calculation of the current expectation value in the homogeneous electric field in 1+3 dimensional de Sitter spacetime is shown. The result accords with previous work obtained by using adiabatic subtraction…

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

We study the one-loop radiative corrections for massless fermions in de Sitter space induced by a Yukawa coupling to a light, nearly minimally coupled scalar field. We show that the fermions acquire a mass. Next we construct the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Bjorn Garbrecht , Tomislav Prokopec

We summarize and expand our investigations concerning the soft graviton effects on microscopic matter dynamics in de Sitter space. The physical couplings receive IR logarithmic corrections which are sensitive to the IR cut-off at the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-31 Hiroyuki Kitamoto , Yoshihisa Kitazawa

We study the momentum-space entanglement between the sub- and super-Hubble modes of a spectator scalar field, with a cubic $\lambda \phi^3$ interaction, in de Sitter space. Momentum-space entanglement has some universal properties for any…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-28 Suddhasattwa Brahma , Jaime Calderón-Figueroa , Moatasem Hassan , Xuan Mi

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
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