# Holographic Description of Noncommutative Schwinger Effect

## TL;DR

This paper investigates how noncommutativity in Yang-Mills theories affects the Schwinger effect, showing that the threshold electric field for pair production decreases and providing first-order corrections using holographic methods.

## Contribution

It introduces a holographic approach to compute the pair production threshold and rate in noncommutative Yang-Mills theories, revealing the impact of noncommutativity.

## Key findings

- Threshold electric field is reduced by noncommutativity.
- First-order correction to pair production rate estimated.
- Results align with previous field theoretic studies.

## Abstract

We consider the phenomenon of spontaneous pair production in presence of an external electric field for noncommutative Yang Mills theories. Using Maldacena's holographic conjecture the threshold electric field for pair production is computed from the quark-antiquark potential for noncommutative theories. As an effect of noncommutativity, the threshold electric field is seen to be smaller than its commutative counterpart. We also estimate the correction to the pair production rate of quark-antiquark pairs to the first order of the noncommutative deformation parameter. Our result bears resemblance with an earlier work (based on field theoretic methods).