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Quantum Statistics Effects for Schwinger Pair Production in Short Laser Pulses

Oct, 2009

5 pages

Part of Quantum field theory under the influence of external conditions. Proceedings, 9th Conference, QFEXT09, Norman, USA, September 21-25, 2009, 492-496

Contribution to:

9th Conference on Quantum Field Theory under the Influence of External Conditions (QFEXT 09): Devoted to the Centenary of H. B. G. Casimir, 492-496

Published: 2010

e-Print:

0910.4457 [hep-ph]

DOI:

10.1142/9789814289931_0062

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Abstract: (World Scientific)

We investigate non-perturbative pair production from vacuum (the Schwinger effect) in the focal region of two counter-propagating, ultra-short laser pulses with sub-cycle structure. We use the quantum kinetic formulation to calculate the momentum spectrum of created particles and show the extreme sensitivity to the laser frequency ω, the pulse length τ and the carrier-envelope absolute phase ɸ. We apply this formalism to both fermions and bosons to illustrate the influence of quantum statistics in this type of electric background field.

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5 pages, 2 figuers. Talk given by F.H. at the Ninth Conference on Quantum Field Theory under the Influence of External Conditions, 21-25 September 2009, Oklahoma, USA

Schwinger effect
quantum statistics
vacuum polarization
statistics: quantum
length: pulsed
laser
pair production
momentum spectrum
background field

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