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Entropy Suppression through Quantum Interference in Electric Pulses
Gerald V. Dunne, Adrien Florio, Dmitri E. Kharzeev
The Schwinger process in strong electric fields creates particles and antiparticles that are entangled. The entropy of entanglement between particles and antiparticles has been fou…
U_A(1) Anomaly at high temperature: the scalar-pseudoscalar splitting in QCD
Gerald V. Dunne, Alex Kovner
We estimate the splitting between the spatial correlation lengths in the scalar and pseudoscalar channels in QCD at high temperature. The splitting is due to the contribution of th…
Chiral Magnetic Spiral
Gokce Basar, Gerald V. Dunne, Dmitri E. Kharzeev
We argue that the presence of a very strong magnetic field in the chirally broken phase induces inhomogeneous expectation values, of a spiral nature along the magnetic field axis,…
Quantum statistics effect in Schwinger pair production in short laser pulses
Florian Hebenstreit, Reinhard Alkofer, Gerald V. Dunne +1
We investigate non-perturbative pair production from vacuum (the Schwinger effect) in the focal region of two counter-propagating, ultra-short laser pulses with sub-cycle structure…
Catalysis of Schwinger Vacuum Pair Production
Gerald V. Dunne, Holger Gies, Ralf Schützhold
We propose a new catalysis mechanism for non-perturbative vacuum electron-positron pair production, by superimposing a plane-wave X-ray probe beam with a strongly focused optical l…
Momentum signatures for Schwinger pair production in short laser pulses with a sub-cycle structure
Florian Hebenstreit, Reinhard Alkofer, Gerald V. Dunne +1
We investigate electron-positron pair production from vacuum for short laser pulses with sub-cycle structure, in the nonperturbative regime (Schwinger pair production). We use the…
Pair creation in inhomogeneous fields from worldline instantons
Gerald V. Dunne, Christian Schubert
We show how to do semiclassical nonperturbative computations within the worldline approach to quantum field theory using ``worldline instantons''. These worldline instantons are cl…
3D two-color QCD at finite temperature and baryon density
Gerald V. Dunne, Shinsuke M. Nishigaki
We study the phase diagram for two-color QCD in three-dimensional spacetime, as a function of temperature and baryon chemical potential, using the low-energy effective Lagrangian a…
Two-Loop Self-Dual QED
Gerald V. Dunne, Christian Schubert
We present explicit closed-form expressions for the two-loop Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangians in a constant self-dual field, for both spinor and scalar QED. The simplicity of these rep…
Two-color QCD in 3D at finite baryon density
Gerald V. Dunne, Shinsuke M. Nishigaki
We study the low energy phase structure of SU(2) gauge theories in three-dimensional spacetime, at finite baryon density. The pseudoreality of representations of SU(2) permits an a…