Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 81, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.085020
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- U.S. Department of Energy at Case Western Reserve University
- Institute for Advanced Study [DE-FG02-90ER40542]
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A charged parallel plate capacitor will create particle-antiparticle pairs by the Schwinger process and discharge over time. We consider the full quantum discharge process in 1 + 1 dimensions including backreaction, when the electric field interacts with massless charged fermions. We recover oscillatory features in the electric field observed in a semiclassical analysis and find that the amplitude of the oscillations falls off as t(-1/2) and that stronger coupling implies slower decay. Remarkably, Ohm's law applies to the vacuum and we evaluate the quantum electrical conductivity of the vacuum to be 2e/root pi, where e is the fermionic charge. Similarities and differences with black hole evaporation are mentioned.
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