The Gamow vectors and the Schwinger effect

DOI10.1007/BF02768930MaRDI QIDQ1381691zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fabián H. Gaioli, Edgardo T. Garcia-Alvarez, Mario Castagnino

Publication date 1 April 1998

Published in International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9807048

zbMATH Keywords

charge scalar fieldGamow vectorsproper time formalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of operator theory in the physical sciences (47N50) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25)

Abstract: We introduce a `proper time' formalism to study the instability of the vacuum in a uniform external electric field due to particle production. This formalism allows us to reduce a quantum field theoretical problem to a quantum-mechanical one in a higher dimension. The instability results from the inverted oscillator structure which appears in the Hamiltonian. We show that the `proper time' unitary evolution splits into two semigroups. The semigroup associated with decaying Gamov vectors is related to the Feynman boundary conditions for the Green functions and the semigroup associated with growing Gamov vectors is related to the Dyson boundary conditions.

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