The current density in quantum electrodynamics in external potentials

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2015.04.006MaRDI QIDQ305312zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jan Schlemmer, Jochen Zahn

Publication date 29 August 2016

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.05912

zbMATH Keywords

current densityHadamard parametrixvacuum polarization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Time-dependent Schrödinger equations and Dirac equations (35Q41) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

Abstract: We review different definitions of the current density for quantized fermions in the presence of an external electromagnetic field. Several deficiencies in the popular prescription due to Schwinger and the mode sum formula for static external potentials are pointed out. We argue that Dirac's method, which is the analog of the Hadamard point-splitting employed in quantum field theory in curved space-times, is conceptually the most satisfactory. As a concrete example, we discuss vacuum polarization and the stress-energy tensor for massless fermions in 1+1 dimension. Also a general formula for the vacuum polarization in static external potentials in 3+1 dimensions is derived.

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