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The electron-positron pair production due to the dynamical Schwinger process in a slowly oscillating strong electric field is enhanced by the superposition of a rapidly oscillating weaker electric field. A systematic account of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 Andreas Otto , Daniel Seipt , David Blaschke , Stanislav Alexandrovich Smolyansky , Burkhard Kämpfer

According to the Schwinger mechanism, a uniform electric field brings about pair productions in vacuum; the relationship between the production rate and the electric field is different, depending on the dimension of the system. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-29 Kazuhiro Yokota , Nobuyuki Imoto

An analog of the $j=1/2$ Feynman-Dyson propagator is presented in the framework of the $j=1$ Weinberg's theory. The basis for this construction is the concept of the Weinberg field as a system of four field functions differing by parity and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-20 Valeri Dvoeglazov

The transfer matrix ${\mathbf{M}}$ of a short-range potential may be expressed in terms of the time-evolution operator for an effective two-level quantum system with a time-dependent non-Hermitian Hamiltonian. This leads to a dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-17 Farhang Loran , Ali Mostafazadeh

Charged particles in static electric and magnetic fields have Landau levels and tunneling states from the vacuum. Using the instanton method of Phys. Rev. D 65, 105002 (2002), we obtain the formulae for the pair-production rate in spinor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-18 Sang Pyo Kim , Don N. Page

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

A method is proposed of constructing quantum correlators for a general gauge system whose classical equations of motion do not necessarily follow from the least action principle. The idea of the method is in assigning a certain BRST…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 S. L. Lyakhovich , A. A. Sharapov

Integral form of the space-time-fractional Schr\"odinger equation for the scattering problem in the fractional quantum mechanics is studied in this paper. We define the fractional Green's function for the space-time fractional Schrodinger…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-02-26 Dong Jianping

The Wigner function's behavior of accelerated and non-accelerated Greenberger Horne Zeilinger (GHZ) state is discussed. For the non-accelerated GHZ state, the minimum/maximum peaks of the Wigner function depends on the distribution's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-28 N. Metwally , M. Y. Abd Rabbou , M. M. A. Ahmed , A. S. F. Obada

We outline a different method of describing scalar field particle production in a uniform electric field. In the standard approach, the (analytically continued) harmonic oscillator paradigm is important in describing particle production.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Srinivasan , T. Padmanabhan

We study the Schwinger mechanism by a uniform electric field in ${\rm dS}_2$ and ${\rm AdS}_2$ and the curvature effect on the Schwinger effect, and further propose a thermal interpretation of the Schwinger formula in terms of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Rong-Gen Cai , Sang Pyo Kim

Much of the mathematical development of quantum field theory has been in support of determining the S-matrix in order to calculate scattering cross sections. However there is also an interest in determining how expectation values of field…

General Physics · Physics 2014-07-24 Dan Solomon

Despite its centrality in the mathematical structure of perturbative many-body theory, the total Green's function for the many-body time-dependent Schrodinger equation has been ignored for decades, superseded by single-particle Green's…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-26 David Roberts

The quantum dynamics of an ensemble of interacting electrons in an array of random scatterers is treated using a new numerical approach for the calculation of average values of quantum operators and time correlation functions in the Wigner…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Filinov , P. Thomas , I. Varga , T. Meier , M. Bonitz , V. Fortov , S. W. Koch

The non-perturbative electron-positron pair production (Schwinger effect) is considered for space- and time-dependent electric fields $\vec{E}(\vec{x},t)$. Based on the Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner (DHW), formalism we derive a system of partial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-23 Florian Hebenstreit , Reinhard Alkofer , Holger Gies

This article is devoted to prove a stability result for two independent coefficients for a Schr\"odinger operator in an unbounded strip. The result is obtained with only one observation on an unbounded subset of the boundary and the data of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-02-01 Laure Cardoulis , Patricia Gaitan

In this work, we generalize previous results about the Fractionary Schr\"{o}dinger Equation within the formalism of the theory of Tempered Ultradistributions. Several examples of the use of this theory are given. In particular we evaluate…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. L. De Paoli , M. C. Rocca

The importance of a rigorous definition of the singular degree of a distribution is demonstrated on the case of two-dimensional QED (Schwinger model). Correct mathematical treatment of second order vacuum polarization in the perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Andreas Aste , G"unter Scharf , Urs Walther

We derive an exact quantum equation of motion for the photon Wigner operator in non-commutative QED, which is gauge covariant. In the classical approximation, this reduces to a simple transport equation which describes the hard thermal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 F. T. Brandt , Ashok Das , J. Frenkel

The free propagator for the scalar $\lambda \phi^4$--theory is calculated exactly up to the second derivative of a background field. Using this propagator I compute the one--loop effective action, which then contains all powers of the field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Per Elmfors