Worldline sphaleron for thermal Schwinger pair production
(2018)
Journal Article
Gould, O., Rajantie, A., & Xie, C. (2018). Worldline sphaleron for thermal Schwinger pair production. Physical Review D, 98(5), 056022. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.98.056022
With increasing temperatures, Schwinger pair production changes from a quantum tunneling to a classical, thermal process, determined by a worldline sphaleron. We show this and calculate the corresponding rate of pair production for both spinor and sc... Read More about Worldline sphaleron for thermal Schwinger pair production.