Effect of spatially oscillating field on Schwinger pair production

Abstract: Effect of spatially oscillating fields on the electron-positron pair production is studied numerically and analytically when the work done by the electric field over its spatial extent is smaller than twice the electron mass. Under large spatial scale, we further explain the characteristics of the position and momentum distribution via tunneling time, tunneling distance and energy gap between the positive and negative energy bands in the Dirac vacuum. Our results show that the maximum reduced particle number is about five times by comparing to maximum number for non-oscillating field. Moreover, the pair production results via Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism can be also calculated by using local density approximation and analytical approximation method when spatial oscillating cycle number is large. Moreover, in case of large spatial scale field, the position distribution of created particles could be interpreted by the tunneling time.