Does a nonzero tunneling probability imply particle production in time-independent classical electromagnetic backgrounds?

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 7599-7606

  Sriramkumar, L ^a   Padmanabhan, T ^a  

^a INTER UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

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EID: 0000530089     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.54.7599     Document Type: Article

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