Schwinger pair production in electric and magnetic fields
Schwinger pair production in electric and magnetic fields
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevd.73.065020
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发表时间:
2003-01
影响因子:
5
通讯作者:
Sang Pyo Kim;D. Page
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作者:
Sang Pyo Kim;D. Page
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 formulas for the pair-production rate in spinor and scalar QED, which sum over all Landau levels and recover exactly the well-known results. The pair-production rates are calculated for an electric field of finite extent, and for the Sauter potential, both with a constant magnetic field also present, and are shown to have finite-size effects.