Pair production in rotating electric fields via quantum kinetic equations: Resolving helicity states

Pair production in rotating electric fields via quantum kinetic equations: Resolving helicity states

We investigate the phenomenon of electron-positron pair production from vacuum in the presence of a strong electric field of circular polarization. By means of a nonperturbative approach based on the quantum kinetic equations (QKEs), we numerically calculate helicity-resolved momentum distributions...

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