Exponential enhancement of field-induced pair creation from the bosonic vacuum

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Wagner, R E ^a   Ware, M R ^a   Su, Q ^a   Grobe, R ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUND STATE; CREATION PROCESS; EXPONENTIAL GROWTH; EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELD; MODEL CALCULATIONS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PAIR CREATION; POTENTIAL WELLS; QUANTUM FIELD; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SELF-AMPLIFICATION; SPATIAL SHAPE; SUPER-CRITICAL; THEORETICAL SIMULATION; TIME-RESOLVED;

AMPLIFICATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; VACUUM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 77952334096     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.052104     Document Type: Article

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