Quasi-stationary states and fermion pair creation from a vacuum in supercritical Coulomb fieldстатья
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Аннотация:Creation of charged fermion pair from a vacuum in so-called supercritical Coulomb
potential is examined for the case when fermions can move only in the same (one)
plane. In which case, quantum dynamics of charged massive or massless fermions can be
described by the two-dimensional Dirac Hamiltonians with an usual (−a/r) Coulomb
potential. These Hamiltonians are singular and require the additional definition in order
for them to be treated as self-adjoint quantum-mechanical operators. We construct the
self-adjoint two-dimensional Dirac Hamiltonians with a Coulomb potential and determine the quantum-mechanical states for such Hamiltonians in the corresponding Hilbert
spaces of square-integrable functions. We determine the scattering amplitude in which
the self-adjoint extension parameter is incorporated and then obtain equations implicitly defining possible discrete energy spectra of the self-adjoint Dirac Hamiltonians with a Coulomb potential. It is shown that this quantum system becomes unstable in the presence of a supercritical Coulomb potential which manifests in the appearance of quasi-stationary states in the lower (negative) energy continuum. The energy spectrum of those states is quasi-discrete, consists of broadened levels with widths related to the inverse lifetimes of the quasi-stationary states as well as the probability of creation of charged fermion pair by a supercritical Coulomb field. Explicit analytical expressions for the creation probabilities of charged (massive or massless) fermion pair are obtained in a supercritical Coulomb field.