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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| author | A. Otto D. Seipt D. Blaschke B. Kämpfer S.A. Smolyansky |
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| description | 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. The strong low-frequency field leads to shell structures which are lifted by the weaker high-frequency field. The resonance type amplification refers to a new, monotonously increasing mode, often hidden in some strong oscillatory transient background, which disappears during the smoothly switching off the background fields, thus leaving a pronounced residual shell structure in phase space. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-20966ed256494d6eb6a29d9bc3e39bb52022-12-21T22:37:20ZengElsevierPhysics Letters B0370-26932015-01-01740335340Lifting shell structures in the dynamically assisted Schwinger effect in periodic fieldsA. Otto0D. Seipt1D. Blaschke2B. Kämpfer3S.A. Smolyansky4Institute of Radiation Physics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstraße 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany; Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Dresden, Zellescher Weg 17, 01062 Dresden, Germany; Corresponding author.Helmholtz-Institut Jena, Fröbelstieg 3, 07743 Jena, GermanyGroup of Elementary Particle Theory, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Wroclaw, pl. M. Borna 9, 50-204 Wroclaw, PolandInstitute of Radiation Physics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstraße 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany; Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Dresden, Zellescher Weg 17, 01062 Dresden, GermanyDepartment of Physics, Saratov State University, 410071 Saratov, RussiaThe 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. The strong low-frequency field leads to shell structures which are lifted by the weaker high-frequency field. The resonance type amplification refers to a new, monotonously increasing mode, often hidden in some strong oscillatory transient background, which disappears during the smoothly switching off the background fields, thus leaving a pronounced residual shell structure in phase space.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269314008818 |
| spellingShingle | A. Otto D. Seipt D. Blaschke B. Kämpfer S.A. Smolyansky Lifting shell structures in the dynamically assisted Schwinger effect in periodic fields Physics Letters B |
| title | Lifting shell structures in the dynamically assisted Schwinger effect in periodic fields |
| title_full | Lifting shell structures in the dynamically assisted Schwinger effect in periodic fields |
| title_fullStr | Lifting shell structures in the dynamically assisted Schwinger effect in periodic fields |
| title_full_unstemmed | Lifting shell structures in the dynamically assisted Schwinger effect in periodic fields |
| title_short | Lifting shell structures in the dynamically assisted Schwinger effect in periodic fields |
| title_sort | lifting shell structures in the dynamically assisted schwinger effect in periodic fields |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269314008818 |
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