Magnetically induced vacuum decay
Abstract
We study the fermionic vacuum energy of vacua with and without being applied an external magnetic field. The energetic difference of two vacua leads to the vacuum decaying and the vacuum-energy releasing. In the context of quantum field theories, we discuss why and how the vacuum energy can be released by spontaneous photon emissions and/or paramagnetically screening the external magnetic field. In addition, we quantitatively compute the vacuum energy released, the paramagnetic screening effect and the rate and spectrum of spontaneous photon emissions. The possibilities of experimentally detecting such an effect of vacuum-energy releasing and this effect accounting for the anormalous X-ray pulsar are discussed.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0106076,
title = {Magnetically induced vacuum decay},
author = {She-Sheng Xue},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0106076},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
13 papes, the version to appear in Phys. Rev. D