A NEW S-S′ PAIR CREATION RATE EXPRESSION IMPROVING UPON ZENER CURVES FOR I-E PLOTS

Abstract

To simplify phenomenology modeling used for charge density wave (CDW) transport, we apply a wavefunctional formulation of tunneling Hamiltonians to a physical transport problem characterized by a perturbed washboard potential. To do so, we consider tunneling between states that are wavefunctionals of a scalar quantum field ϕ. I-E curves that match Zener curves — used to fit data experimentally with wavefunctionals congruent with the false vacuum hypothesis. This has a very strong convergence with the slope of graphs of electron-positron pair production representations. The newly derived results include a threshold electric field explicitly as a starting point without an arbitrary cut off value for the start of the graphed results, thereby improving on both the Zener plots and Lin's generalization of Schwingers 1950 electron-positron nucleation values results for low dimensional systems. The similarities in plot behavior of the current values after the threshold electric field values argue in favor of the Bardeen pinning gap paradigm proposed for quasi-one-dimensional metallic transport problems.