Vacuum polarization of planar charged fermions with Coulomb and Aharonov-Bohm potentials

DOI10.1142/S0217732316500322zbMATH Open1334.81114arXiv1509.02775MaRDI QIDQ2800899FDOQ2800899

Authors: V. R. Khalilov, I. V. Mamsurov 

Publication date: 19 April 2016

Published in: Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Vacuum polarization of charged massless fermions is investigated in the superposition of Coulomb and Aharonov--Bohm (AB) potentials in 2+1 dimensions. For this purpose we construct the Green function of the two-dimensional Dirac equation with Coulomb and AB potentials (via the regular and irregular solutions of the radial Dirac equation) and calculate the vacuum polarization charge density in these fields in the so-called subcritical and supercritical regimes. The role of the self-adjoint extension parameter is discussed in terms of the physics of problem. We hope that our results will be helpful in the more deep understanding the fundamental problem of quantum electrodynamics and can be applied to the problems of charged impurity screening in graphene with taking into consideration the electron spin.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.02775

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zbMATH Keywords

supercritical Coulomb fieldvacuum polarizationvacuum instabilitycritical chargeCoulomb and Aharonov-Bohm potentialsinduced charge density

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Time-dependent Schrödinger equations and Dirac equations (35Q41) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

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• Self-adjoint extensions in quantum mechanics. General theory and applications to Schrödinger and Dirac equations with singular potentials.

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