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.
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Krishna Kumar, R. Mesoscopic Schwinger effect. Nat. Phys. 19, 768–769 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-023-02019-1
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