Creation of multiple electron-positron pairs in arbitrary fields

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Cheng, T ^a   Su, Q ^a   Grobe, R ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLING CONSTANTS; DIRAC EQUATIONS; ELECTRON-POSITRON PAIRS; EXTERNAL FORCE; GENERATING FUNCTIONS; LASER INDUCED BREAKDOWN; NONPERTURBATIVE; SINGLE-PARTICLE; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME EVOLUTIONS; TIME-DEPENDENT;

FUNCTION EVALUATION; LINEAR EQUATIONS; POSITRONS; VACUUM;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 69449098069     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.013410     Document Type: Article

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