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Inhomogeneous Condensates in Planar QED

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

We study the formation of vacuum condensates in 2+12+1 dimensional QED in the presence of inhomogeneous background magnetic fields. For a large class of magnetic fields, the condensate is shown to be proportional to the inhomogeneous magnetic field, in the large flux limit. This may be viewed as a {\it local} form of the {\it integrated} degeneracy-flux relation of Aharonov and Casher.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9511192,
  title  = {Inhomogeneous Condensates in Planar QED},
  author = {Gerald Dunne and Theodore Hall},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9511192},
  year   = {2009}
}

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13 pp, LaTeX, no figures; to appear in Phys. Rev. D

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