Parity anomaly in Dirac equation in (1+2) dimensions, quantum electrodynamics and pair production

DOI10.1142/S0217751X13501030MaRDI QIDQ2866865zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Riazuddin

Publication date 9 December 2013

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.3823

zbMATH Keywords

axial anomalyparity anomalyChern-Simons chargeDirac equation in (1+2) dimensionspair creation of massless fermions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Time-dependent Schrödinger equations and Dirac equations (35Q41) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Feynman diagrams (81T18) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

Abstract: It is shown that parity operator plays an interesting role in Dirac equation in (1+2) dimensions and can be used for defining chiral currents. It is shown that the "anomalous" current induced by an external gauge field can be related to the anomalous divergence of an axial vector current which arises due to quantum radiative corrections provided by triangular loop Feynman diagrams in analogy with the corresponding axial anomaly in (1+3) dimensions. It is shown that the non-conservation of "chiral charge" due to anomaly is related with the topological Chern-Simons charge. As an application pair creation of massless fermions is discussed in electric field.

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