Spontaneous particle creation in time-dependent overcritical fields

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/41/16/164059zbMATH Open1140.83363arXivhep-th/0604101OpenAlexW3105860842MaRDI QIDQ5385809FDOQ5385809

Authors: Nikodem Szpak 

Publication date: 6 May 2008

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

Abstract: It is believed that in presence of some strong electromagnetic fields, called overcritical, the (Dirac) vacuum becomes unstable and decays leading to a spontaneous production of an electron-positron pair. Yet, the arguments are based mainly on the analysis of static fields and are insufficient to explain this phenomenon completely. Therefore, we consider time-dependent overcritical fields and show, within the external field formulation, how spontaneous particle creation can be defined and measured in physical processes. We prove that the effect exists always when a strongly overcritical field is switched on, but it becomes unstable and hence generically only approximate and non-unique when the field is switched on and off. In the latter case, it becomes unique and stable only in the adiabatic limit.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0604101

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

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