Quantum Magnetic Collapse
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-31 v2 Astrophysics
Abstract
We study the thermodynamics of degenerate electron and charged vector boson gases in very intense magnetic fields. In degenerate conditions of the electron gas, the pressure transverse to the magnetic field may vanish, leading to a transverse collapse. For W-bosons an instability arises because the magnetization diverges at the critical field B_c = M_W^2/e. If the magnetic field is self-consistently maintained, the maximum value it can take is of the order of , but in any case the system becomes unstable and collapses.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9911218,
title = {Quantum Magnetic Collapse},
author = {M. Chaichian and S. S. Masood and C. Montonen and A. Perez Martinez and H. Perez Rojas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9911218},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
7 pages. Title changed, argumentation tightened, typos corrected. Version to be published in PRL