Schwinger pair production: Explicit Localization of the world-line instanton

Gordon W. Semenoff; James Gordon

Schwinger pair production: Explicit Localization of the world-line instanton

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arxiv 1612.05909 v3 pith:IHEFYIOB submitted 2016-12-18 hep-th

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We present a simple proof that the imaginary part of the world-line path integral which computes the rate of Schwinger pair production of charged particles in a constant electric field, is given exactly by the semiclassical WKB limit.

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