It is demonstrated that the production mechanism of a pair which is produced from vacuum under an external field can be characterized by its conversion energy, a quantity defined as total mass-energy of this pair. The...It is demonstrated that the production mechanism of a pair which is produced from vacuum under an external field can be characterized by its conversion energy, a quantity defined as total mass-energy of this pair. The value of this quantity is checked with quantum field theoretical simulations for several field configurations and it is found that conversion energy can show all the production channels and give the yields of each channel specifically. We detect signatures of effective mass, combination of different photons as well as dynamically assisted Schwinger mechanism and represented more features of these processes in the view of conversion energy.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.11475026
文摘It is demonstrated that the production mechanism of a pair which is produced from vacuum under an external field can be characterized by its conversion energy, a quantity defined as total mass-energy of this pair. The value of this quantity is checked with quantum field theoretical simulations for several field configurations and it is found that conversion energy can show all the production channels and give the yields of each channel specifically. We detect signatures of effective mass, combination of different photons as well as dynamically assisted Schwinger mechanism and represented more features of these processes in the view of conversion energy.
