Angular momentum of the electron: one-loop studies

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2020.115042MaRDI QIDQ2230243zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Bogdan Damski

Publication date 17 September 2021

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06054

zbMATH Keywords

Pauli-Villars regularizationSochocki-Plemelj formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Motion of charged particles (78A35) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20) Constructive quantum field theory (81T08) Mono-, di- and multipole moments (EM and other), gyromagnetic relations (81V60)

Abstract: We combine bare perturbation theory with the imaginary time evolution technique to study one-loop radiative corrections to various components of angular momentum of the electron. Our investigations are based on the canonical decomposition of angular momentum, where spin and orbital components, associated with fermionic and electromagnetic degrees of freedom, are individually approached. We use for this purpose quantum electrodynamics in the general covariant gauge and develop a formalism, based on the repeated use of the Sochocki-Plemelj formula, for proper enforcement of the imaginary time limit. It is then shown that careful implementation of imaginary time evolutions is crucial for getting a correct result for total angular momentum of the electron in the bare perturbative expansion. We also analyze applicability of the Pauli-Villars regularization to our problem, developing a variant of this technique based on modifications of studied observables by subtraction of their ghost operator counterparts. It is then shown that such an approach leads to the consistent regularization of all angular momenta that we compute.

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