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Particle Self-Bunching in the Schwinger Effect in Spacetime-Dependent Electric Fields
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Nonperturbative electron-positron pair creation (the Schwinger effect) is studied based on the Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism in 1+1 dimensions. An ab initio calculation of the Schwinger effect in the presence of a simple space- and time-dependent electric field pulse is performed for the first time, allowing for the calculation of the time evolution of observable quantities such as the charge density, the particle number density or the total number of created particles. We predict a new self-bunching effect of charges in phase space due to the spatial and temporal structure of the pulse.
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A sufficiently strong electrostatic field leads to Schwinger pair production of electrons and positrons.
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- Authors
- Hebenstreit, F., Alkofer, R., & Gies, H.
- Affiliations
- University of Graz (AT)
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2011-10-27
- Volume
- 107
- Issue
- 18
- Pages
- 180403-180403
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
- OpenAlex
- W2026329560
- Cited by
- 136
- References
- 33
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- FWCI
- 5.21
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- arxiv.org
- Locations
- Physical Review Letters (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
- Keywords
- Schwinger effect, electron-positron pair production, pulsed electric field, 1+1 dimensions, charge density, particle number density, phase space
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