3 papers
gr-qc2025
Relevance of "on" and "off" transitions in quantum pair production experiments
Ãlvaro Ãlvarez-DomÃnguez, Ãlvaro Parra-López
Analog gravity experiments, such as those realized in Bose-Einstein condensates, often aim at simulating cosmological pair production due to the dynamical expansion of the Universe…
hep-th2025
Quantization of charged fields in the presence of intense electromagnetic fields
Ãlvaro Ãlvarez-DomÃnguez
This thesis applies techniques from quantum field theory in curved spacetimes to study particle creation in external fields, focusing on the Schwinger effect (i.e., the production…
gr-qc2024
Reply to Comment on "No Black Holes from Light" [arXiv:2408.06714]
Ãlvaro Ãlvarez-DomÃnguez, Luis J. Garay, Eduardo MartÃn-MartÃnez +1
We discuss how the comment by A. Loeb [arXiv:2408.06714] has no bearing on the results of Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 041401 (2024) [arXiv:2405.02389].