Schwinger Effect, Hawking Radiation, and Unruh Effect

Abstract

We revisit the Schwinger effect in de Sitter, anti-de Sitter spaces and charged black holes, and explore the interplay between quantum electrodynamics and the quantum gravity effect at one-loop level. We then advance a thermal interpretation of the Schwinger effect in curved spacetimes. Finally, we show that the Schwinger effect in a near-extremal black hole differs from Hawking radiation of charged particles in a non-extremal black hole and is factorized into those in an anti-de Sitter space and a Rindler space with the surface gravity for acceleration.

Latex 10 pages, no figure; Proceedings for LeCosPA Symposium, National Taiwan University, Dec. 14-18, 2015