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arxiv 1109.2920 v1 pith:FC4H3EMS submitted 2011-09-13 hep-th hep-ph

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We study tunneling pair creation of W-Bosons by an external electric field on the Coulomb branch of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We use AdS/CFT holography to find a generalization of Schwinger's formula for the pair production rate to the strong coupling, planar limit which includes the exchange of virtual massless particles to all orders. We find that the pair creation formula has an upper critical electric field beyond which the process is no longer exponentially suppressed. The value of the critical field is identical to that which occurs in the Born-Infeld action of probe D3-branes in the AdS5XS5 background.

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  1. Nonlocal Nonstabilizerness from Holographic Schwinger Pair Production

    hep-th 2026-05 unverdicted novelty 6.0 of 10

    In holographic Schwinger pair production, the excess capacity of entanglement is √λ(d−2)/(d−1)³ — positive for d>2, zero for d=2 — so the produced pair carries nonlocal magic for d>2.

  2. Holographic Schwinger effect with Translational Symmetry Breaking

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    In a holographic model with broken translational symmetry, chemical potential and magnetic fields lower the Schwinger pair-production barrier, while the disorder parameter raises it near and above the critical field.

  3. Schwinger Effect in a Twice Anisotropic Holographic Model

    hep-ph 2025-06 conditional novelty 4.0 of 10

    In a twice anisotropic holographic QCD model, magnetic anisotropy lowers the Schwinger pair-production barrier while spatial anisotropy raises it.

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