@article{de7289b04ca549fbad8b35c3d3ecbced,
title = "Unexciting non-Abelian electric fields",
abstract = "Electric fields in QED are known to discharge due to Schwinger pair production of charged particles. Corresponding electric fields in non-Abelian theory are known to discharge due to the production of gluons. Yet electric flux tubes in QCD ought to be stable to the production of charged gluons as they confine quarks. We resolve this conundrum by finding electric field configurations in pure non-Abelian gauge theory in which the Schwinger process is absent and the electric field is protected against quantum dissipation. We comment on the implications for QCD flux tubes.",
author = "Tanmay Vachaspati",
note = "Funding Information: I am grateful to Gia Dvali, Sang Pyo Kim, Parameswaran Nair, Igor Shovkovy, Frank Wilczek, and George Zahariade for helpful comments. T. V. was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of High Energy Physics, under Award No. DE-SC0019470. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the {"}https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/{"}Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3.",
year = "2022",
month = may,
day = "15",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.105.105011",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "105",
journal = "Physical Review D",
issn = "2470-0010",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "10",
}