On vacuum fluctuations and particle masses

DOI10.1007/s10701-012-9668-2zbMath1261.81098MaRDI QIDQ1929320

M. D. Pollock

Publication date: 7 January 2013

Published in: Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-012-9668-2

zbMATH Keywords

quantum fluctuations; spontaneous symmetry breaking; conformal invariance; photon mass

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81T40: Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics

81V25: Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory

81V80: Quantum optics

81R40: Symmetry breaking in quantum theory

81Q20: Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory

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