Schwinger effect

English

Etymology

After physicist Julian Schwinger, who was the first to give a full theoretical description of the effect (in 1951).

Noun

Schwinger effect (uncountable)

  1. (physics) The predicted spontaneous creation of particle-antiparticle pairs in the presence of an extremely strong electric field.

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