Thermal scalar quantum field in static background gauge potentials

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/32/43/302MaRDI QIDQ4485386zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Frederik G. Scholtz, A. A. Actor, K. D. Rothe

Publication date 12 June 2000

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9809030

zbMATH Keywords

energy-momentum tensorfinite temperature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Applications of PDEs on manifolds (58J90)

Abstract: We study at finite temperature the energy-momentum tensor $T_{muu}(x)$ of (i) a scalar field in arbitrary dimension, and (ii) a spinor field in 1+1 dimensions, interacting with a static background electromagnetic field. $T_{muu}$ separates into an UV divergent part $T_{muu}^{sea}$ representing the virtual sea, and an UV finite part $T_{muu}^{plasma}$ describing the thermal plasma of the matter field. $T_{muu}^{sea}$ remains uniform in the presence of a underbar{uniform} electric field $vecE$, while $T_{muu}^{plasma}$ becomes a periodic function with period $Deltax=2piT/E$ in the direction parallel to $vecE$. A related periodicity is found for a uniform static magnetic field if one spatial direction perpendicular to the magnetic field is compactified to a circle.

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