The search for the schwinger effect: Nonperturbative vacuum pair production

International Journal of Modern Physics A

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2373-2381

  Dunne, Gerald V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Non perturbative; Schwinger effect; Semiclassical

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952335845     PISSN: 0217751X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0217751X10049657     Document Type: Article

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