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A general theory is derived for the creation of pairs of spinless particles from vacuum in the presence of an electromagnetic field. If the exact solutions of the Klein-Gordon equation are known for the particle in the given external field, the pair-creation problem can be solved.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 3, pp. 71–74, March, 1975.
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Bagrov, V.G., Gitman, D.M., Gavrilov, S.P. et al. Creation of boson pairs from vacuum. Soviet Physics Journal 18, 351–354 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00889298
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