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135378 https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.37762 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ 2016-05 20 pages eng Dhumuntarao, Aditya Parikh, Maulik Davies, Paul C. W. Department of Physics School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Barrett, The Honors College Text A problem of interest in theoretical physics is the issue of the evaporation of black holes via Hawking radiation subject to a fixed background. We approach this problem by considering an electromagnetic analogue, where we have substituted Hawking radiation with the Schwinger effect. We treat the case of massless QED in 1+1 dimensions with the path integral approach to quantum field theory, and discuss the resulting Feynman diagrams from our analysis. The results from this thesis may be useful to find a version of the Schwinger effect that can be solved exactly and perturbatively, as this version may provide insights to the gravitational problem of Hawking radiation. Backreactions Theoretical Physics Quantum Field Theory Black Holes Gravity Quantum Matter Coupled to Classical Gravity