Vacuum Polarization by a Magnetic Flux of Special Cylindric Form

DOI10.1142/S0217751X03015258MaRDI QIDQ4451804zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 1 March 2004

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0210282

zbMATH Keywords

quantum field theoryspontaneous symmetry breakingclassical solutionCasimir energyradiative correction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Functional analytic techniques in dynamical systems; zeta functions, (Ruelle-Frobenius) transfer operators, etc. (37C30) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

Abstract: We consider the ground state energy of a spinor field in the background of a square well shaped magnetic flux tube. We use the zeta- function regularization and express the ground state energy as an integral involving the Jost function of a two dimensional scattering problem. We perform the renormalization by subtracting the contributions from first several heat kernel coefficients. The ground state energy is presented as a convergent expression suited for numerical evaluation. We discuss corresponding numerical calculations. Using the uniform asymptotic expansion of the special functions entering the Jost function we are able to calculate higher order heat kernel coefficients.

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