Pairs emission in a uniform background field: an algebraic approach

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/44/30/305401MaRDI QIDQ3088231zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Roberto Soldati

Publication date 19 August 2011

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.0468

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15)

Abstract: A fully algebraic general approach is developed to treat the pairs emission and absorption in the presence of some uniform external background field. In particular, it is shown that the pairs production and annihilation operators, together with the pairs number operator, do actually fulfill the SU(2) functional Lie algebra. As an example of application, the celebrated Schwinger formula is consistently and nicely recovered, within this novel approach, for a Dirac spinor field in the presence of a constant and homogeneous electric field in four spacetime dimensions.

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