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noun
The predicted spontaneous creation of particle-antiparticle pairs in the presence of an extremely strong electric field.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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History
After physicist Julian Schwinger, who was the first to give a full theoretical description of the effect (in 1951).
