Lifting shell structures in the dynamically assisted Schwinger effect in periodic fields

The dynamically assisted pair creation (Schwinger effect) is considered for the superposition of two periodic electric fields acting in a finite time interval. We find a strong enhancement by orders of magnitude caused by a weak field with a frequency being a multitude of the strong-field frequency....

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Main Authors: A. Otto, D. Seipt, D. Blaschke, B. Kämpfer, S.A. Smolyansky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-01-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269314008818