Summary

According to quantum electrodynamics, the theory describing interactions between light and electrically charged particles, a sufficiently strong electric field can, in principle, convert some of its energy into particles and their antimatter partners. A particle's antimatter partner has the same mass and, for electrically charged particles, the opposite electric charge. The creation of particle–antiparticle pairs via an electric field and from the vacuum is known as the Schwinger effect.

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