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The properties of the forced oscillations of electron-positron plasma (EPP) generated from vacuum under the action of a short laser pulse are considered. Calculating the density of the conduction and polarization currents within the quantum…

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The magnetospheres of magnetars, a class of highly magnetized neutron stars, host magnetic fields exceeding the Schwinger limit, where Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) becomes nonlinear. In such environments, QED scattering processes are…

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We discuss massive scalar field with conformal coupling in Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) Universe of special type with constant electromagnetic field. Treating an external gravitational-electromagnetic background exactly, at first time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman , S. D. Odintsov

Super-strongly magnetized plasmas play a crucial role in extreme environments of magnetar and laboratory laser experiments, demanding comprehensive understanding of how quantum electrodynamic (QED) effects influence plasma behaviour.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Mahmoud Alawashra , Jan Benáček , Martin Pohl , Mikhail Medvedev

In scalar QED we study the Schwinger pair production from an initial ensemble of charged bosons when an electric field is turned on for a finite period together with or without a constant magnetic field. The scalar QED Hamiltonian depends…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Sang Pyo Kim , Hyun Kyu Lee

We study two different initial conditions for fermions for the problem of pair production of fermions coupled to a classical electromagnetic field with backreaction in \oneplusone boost-invariant coordinates. Both of these conditions are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-08 Bogdan Mihaila , John F. Dawson , Fred Cooper

We use the concept of quantum entanglement to analyze the Schwinger effect on an entangled state of a qubit and a bosonic mode coupled with the electric field. As a consequence of the Schwinger production of particle-antiparticle pairs, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-03 Yujie Li , Yu Shi

We study particle - antiparticle pair production under action of a strong time dependent space homogeneous electric field at the presence of a collinear constant magnetic field. We derive the kinetic equation for a such field configuration…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 A. V. Tarakanov , A. V. Reichel , S. A. Smolyansky , S. M. Schmidt , D. V. Vinnik

We investigate the emerging consequences of an applied strong in-plane electric field on a macroscopically large graphene sheet subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field, by determining in exact analytical form various many-body…

General Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Georgios Konstantinou , Konstantinos Moulopoulos

We investigate strong field vacuum effects using a phase space approach based on the Wigner formalism. We calculate the Wigner function in a strong null-field background exactly, using lightfront field theory. The Wigner function exhibits…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-05 Florian Hebenstreit , Anton Ilderton , Mattias Marklund , Jens Zamanian

Several years ago Schwinger proposed a physical mechanism for sonoluminescence in terms of photon production due to changes in the properties of the quantum-electrodynamic (QED) vacuum arising from a collapsing dielectric bubble. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Liberati , F. Belgiorno , Matt Visser , D. W. Sciama

In this study, we investigate the fermionic Schwinger effect in the presence of a constant magnetic field within $(1+3)-$dimensional Minkowski spacetime, considering both constant and pulsed electric fields. We analyze the correlations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-28 Shagun Kaushal

The Lagrangian formulation of the scalar and spinor quantum electrodynamics (QED) in the presence of strong laser fields in a plasma medium is considered. We include the plasma influence in the free Lagrangian analogously to the "Furry…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Erez Raicher , Shalom Eliezer , Arie Zigler

It is a long-standing non-trivial prediction of quantum electrodynamics that its vacuum is unstable in the background of a static, spatially uniform electric field and, in principle, sparks with spontaneous emission of electron-positron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-03 Anthony Hartin , Andreas Ringwald , Natalia Tapia

In ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions, the strong electric field can be produced by the colliding nuclei. The magnitude of the electric field $E$ is on the order of $eE\sim m_{\pi}^2$ at the early stage of the collision. In quark gluon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-05-26 Wu Biaogang , Chen Baoyi , Zhao Xingbo

The interaction of high energy particles with atomic axes and planes allows to observe in crystal various effects predicted by the quantum electrodynamics of phenomena in strong electromagnetic field. In particular, the effect of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. G. Baryshevsky , V. V. Tikhomirov

The features of vacuum particle creation in an external classical field are studied for simplest external field models in $3 + 1$ dimensional QED. The investigation is based on a kinetic equation that is a nonperturbative consequence of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 S. A. Smolyansky , A. D. Panferov , D. B. Blaschke , L. Juchnowski , B. Kaempfer , A. Otto

We investigate the effective action of 2+1 dimensional charged spin 1/2 fermions and spin 0 bosons in the presence of a $U(1)$ gauge field. We evaluate terms in an expansion up to second order in derivatives of the field strength, but…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-30 Daniel Cangemi , Gerald Dunne , Eric D'Hoker

Starting from a general relativistic kinetic equation, a self-consistent mean-field equation for fermions is derived within a covariant density matrix approach of QED plasmas in strong external fields. A Schr\"odinger picture formulation on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Hoell , V. Morozov , G. Roepke

We compute the effective action of QED at one loop order for an electric field which points in the $\hat{z}$ direction and depends arbitrarily upon the light cone time coordinate, $x^+ = (x^0 + x^3)/\sqrt{2}$. This calculation generalizes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 H. M. Fried , R. P. Woodard