Particle creation: Schwinger + Unruh + Hawking

TL;DR

This paper explores the interconnected thermodynamic processes of particle creation via Schwinger, Unruh, and Hawking effects, proposing combined models that reveal entropy and temperature sum rules and quantum entanglement implications.

Contribution

It introduces a unified framework for describing combined particle creation processes involving Schwinger, Unruh, and Hawking effects, highlighting entropy and temperature relations.

Findings

Combined processes obey entropy and inverse temperature sum rules.

Negative contributions to entropy and temperature indicate quantum entanglement.

Unified description links different particle creation phenomena through thermodynamic parameters.

Abstract

We discuss the interconnection between the Schwinger pair creation in electric field, Hawking radiation and particle creation in the Unruh effect. All three processes can be described in terms of the entropy and temperature. These thermodynamic like processes can be combined. We consider the combined process of creation of charged and electrically neutral particles in the electric field, which combine the Schwinger and Unruh effects. We also consider the creation of the charged black and white holes in electric field, which combines the Schwinger effect and the black hole entropy. The combined processes obey the sum rules for the entropy and for the inverse temperature. Some contributions to the entropy and to the temperature are negative, which reflects the quantum entanglement between the created objects.