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Schwinger effect
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English
Etymology
After physicist Julian Schwinger, who was the first to give a full theoretical description of the effect (in 1951).
Noun
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en physics The predicted spontaneous creation of particle-antiparticle pairs in the presence of an extremely strong electric field.
Hypernyms
en pair production
en eponyms