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Fractional Effective Action at strong electromagnetic fields

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-08-08 v2

Abstract

In 1936, Weisskopf showed that for vanishing electric or magnetic fields the strong-field behavior of the one loop Euler-Heisenberg effective Lagrangian of quantum electro dynamics (QED) is logarithmic. Here we generalize this result for different limits of the Lorentz invariants E2B2\vec{E}^2-\vec{B}^2 and BE\vec{B}\cdot\vec{E}. The logarithmic dependence can be interpreted as a lowest-order manifestation of an anomalous power behavior of the effective Lagrangian of QED, with critical exponents δ=e2/(12π)\delta=e^2/(12\pi) for spinor QED, and δS=δ/4\delta_S=\delta/4 for scalar QED.

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@article{arxiv.1305.3133,
  title  = {Fractional Effective Action at strong electromagnetic fields},
  author = {Hagen Kleinert and Eckhard Strobel and She-Sheng Xue},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.3133},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

19 pages, v2: Some minor clarifications added in introduction and conclusions. Final version

R2 v1 2026-06-22T00:16:15.238Z