Short- and long-time breakdown of the vacuum by supercritical fields

Laser Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 282-287

  Krekora, P ^a   Cooley, K ^a   Su, Q ^a   Grobe, R ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CHARGE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FUNCTIONS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

QUANTIZATION; SCHWINGER FORMULA; SUPERCRITICAL FIELDS; TUNNELING SPEEDS;

VACUUM;

EID: 16244410465     PISSN: 1054660X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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