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

Holographic Schwinger Effect

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keywords fieldpaircreationcriticalelectricfindformulaschwinger
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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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    Holographic Schwinger pair creation generates nonlocal magic for spacetime dimensions d>2, as shown by a non-flat entanglement spectrum that can be read from the probe brane free energy.

  2. Holographic Schwinger Effect In a Step Dilaton Background

    hep-th 2026-04 unverdicted novelty 6.0

    A step dilaton background in holography yields sharper suppression of the pair-production barrier and greater sensitivity of the Schwinger effect to electric and magnetic fields than conventional soft-wall models.