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Covariant Effective Action for Quantum Particle with Coordinate-Dependent Mass

Quantum Physics 2015-06-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Using a covariant background field method we calculate the one-loop quantum effective action for a particle with coordinate-dependent mass moving slowly through a one-dimensional configuration space. The procedure can easily be extended to any desired loop order.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0206022,
  title  = {Covariant Effective Action for Quantum Particle with Coordinate-Dependent Mass},
  author = {H. Kleinert and A. Chervyakov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0206022},
  year   = {2015}
}

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