Enhanced dynamically assisted pair production in spatial inhomogeneous electric fields with the frequency chirping

TL;DR

This paper investigates how frequency chirping enhances pair production in spatially inhomogeneous electric fields, revealing significant yield increases and interference effects, with potential implications for experimental realization.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed analysis of chirp effects on pair production in inhomogeneous fields, highlighting conditions for optimal enhancement and interference phenomena.

Findings

Chirping significantly increases pair yield in certain field configurations.

Interference effects become more pronounced with increased chirp.

Optimal chirp parameters depend on spatial scales and field frequencies.

Abstract

Chirped dynamically assisted pair production in spatial inhomogeneous electric fields is studied by the Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism. The effects of the chirp parameter on the reduced momentum spectrum, the reduced total yield of the created pairs for either low or high frequency one-color field and two-color dynamically assisted combinational fields are investigated in detail. Also, the enhancement factor is obtained in the later two-color field case. It is found that for the low frequency field, no matter whether it is accompanied by the other high frequency field, its chirping has a little effect on the pair production. For the one-color high frequency field or/and two-color fields, the momentum spectrum exhibits incomplete interference and the interference effect becomes more and more remarkable as chirp increases. We also find that in the chirped dynamically assisted field, the reduced total yield is enhanced significantly when the chirps are acting on the two fields, compared with that the chirp is acting only for the low frequency strong field. Specifically, by the chirping, it is found the reduced pair number is increased by more than one order of magnitude in the field with a relative narrow spatial scale, while it is enhanced at least two times in other case of field with larger spatial scales or even in the quasi-homogeneous region. We also obtain some optimal chirp parameters and spatial scales for the total yield and enhancement factor in different scenarios of the studied external field. These results may provide a theoretical basis for possible experiments in the future.