Locality in the creation of electron-positron pairs

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Cheng, T ^a   Bowen, S P ^a,b   Gerry, C C ^a,c   Su, Q ^a   Grobe, R ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPTON SCATTERING; NUMERICAL METHODS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH;

DIRAC EQUATION; FIELD STRENGTH; SCALAR POTENTIAL;

WAVE EQUATIONS;

EID: 40949157511     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.77.032106     Document Type: Article

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