Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2012-04-11
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
5 pages, 3 figures
Scientific paper
Ever since Schwinger published his influential paper [J. Schwinger, Phys. Rev. \textbf{82}, 664 (1951)], it has been unanimously accepted that the vacuum is stable in the presence of an electromagnetic plane wave. However, we advance an analysis that indicates this statement is not rigorously valid in a real situation, where thermal effects are present. We show that the thermal vacuum, in the presence of a single plane-wave field, even in the limit of zero frequency (a constant crossed field), decays into electron-positron pairs. Interestingly, the pair-production rate is found to depend nonperturbatively on both the amplitude of the constant crossed field and on the temperature.
Gies Holger
King Benjamin
Piazza Antonino Di
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