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Schwinger pair production in spacetime fields: Moiré patterns, Aharonov-Bohm phases, and Sturm-Liouville eigenvalues
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstraße 400, Dresden, Germany; Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Physics.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5442-8297
2025 (English)In: Physical Review D: covering particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, ISSN 2470-0010, E-ISSN 2470-0029, Vol. 112, no 1, article id 016026Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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We use a worldline-instanton formalism to study the momentum spectrum of Schwinger pair production in spacetime fields with multiple stationary points. We show that the interference structure changes fundamentally when going from purely time-dependent to space-time-dependent fields. For example, it was known that two time-dependent pulses give interference if they are antiparallel, i.e., (Formula presented), but here we show that two spacetime pulses will typically give interference if they instead are parallel, i.e., (Formula presented). We take into account the fact that the momenta of the electron, pz, and of the positron, p0z, are independent for (Formula presented) [it would be (Formula presented)], and find a type of fields which give moiré patterns in the pz − p0z plane. Depending on the separation of the two pulses, we also find an Aharonov-Bohm phase. We also study complex momentum saddle points in order to obtain the integrated probability from the spectrum. Finally, we calculate an asymptotic expansion for the eigenvalues of the Sturm-Liouville equation that corresponds to the saddle-point approximation of the worldline path integral, use that expansion to compute the product of the eigenvalues, and compare this with the result obtained with the Gelfand-Yaglom method.

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American Physical Society, 2025. Vol. 112, no 1, article id 016026
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-246915DOI: 10.1103/3143-w4w3ISI: 001543502200003Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105022171075OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-246915DiVA, id: diva2:2017145
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Swedish Research Council, 2020-04327Available from: 2025-11-27 Created: 2025-11-27 Last updated: 2025-11-27Bibliographically approved

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