# Ultracold atoms simulate hard-to-observe matter-antimatter pair production

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- Published: 2026-10-31T17:00:01+00:00
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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.

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