Worldline Monte Carlo with a fitted potential PDF gives an all-orders quenched propagator for S2QED, with a pole mass that drops toward zero near a critical coupling around 0.72.
Worldline sphaleron for thermal Schwinger pair production
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With increasing temperatures, Schwinger pair production changes from a quantum tunnelling 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 scalar quantum electrodynamics, including the semiclassical prefactor. For electron-positron pair production from a thermal bath of photons and in the presence of an electric field, the rate we derive is faster than both perturbative photon fusion and the zero temperature Schwinger process. We work to all-orders in the coupling and hence our results are also relevant to the pair production of (strongly coupled) magnetic monopoles in heavy ion collisions.
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Propagator from Nonperturbative Worldline Dynamics
Worldline Monte Carlo with a fitted potential PDF gives an all-orders quenched propagator for S2QED, with a pole mass that drops toward zero near a critical coupling around 0.72.