Mesoscopic Schwinger effect

• Published in: Nature physics Vol. 19; no. 6; pp. 768 - 769
• Main Author: Krishna Kumar, Roshan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.06.2023; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 639/766/119/2795; 639/766/119/995; 639/766/419/1133; Atomic; Classical and Continuum Physics; Complex Systems; Condensed Matter Physics; Electric fields; Electromagnetism; Electrons; Graphene; Mathematical and Computational Physics; Molecular; News & Views; news-and-views; Optical and Plasma Physics; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Theoretical; Transistors

The production of particle–antiparticle pairs in a vacuum — the Schwinger effect — requires extreme conditions that are out of reach of tabletop experiments. A mesoscopic simulation of this phenomenon has now been carried out in graphene devices.