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Chiral Symmetry Breaking by a Magnetic Field in Weak-coupling QED

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-26 v1

Abstract

Using the nonperturbative Schwinger-Dyson equation, we show that chiral symmetry in weak-coupling massless QED is dynamically broken by a constant but arbitrarily strong external magnetic field.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9512114,
  title  = {Chiral Symmetry Breaking by a Magnetic Field in Weak-coupling QED},
  author = {C. N. Leung and Y. J. Ng and A. W. Ackley},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9512114},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Latex; 11 pages