Schwinger Pair Production in Electric and Magnetic Fields
arXiv:hep-th/0301132 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.73.065020
Abstract
Charged particles in static electric and magnetic fields have Landau levels and tunneling states from the vacuum. Using the instanton method of Phys. Rev. D 65, 105002 (2002), we obtain the formulae for the pair-production rate in spinor and scalar QED, which sum over all Landau levels and recover exactly the well-known results. The pair-production rates are calculated for an electric field of finite extent, with a constant magnetic field also present, and are shown to have boundary effects.
RevTex4, 10 pages, no figure; replaced by the version accepted in Phys.Rev.D; references added and comparison made with the worldline instanton method
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