Singular properties of QED vacuum response to applied quasi-constant electromagnetic fields
Abstract
Employing the Bogoliubov coefficient summation method and introducing the gyromagnetic ratio we derive an explicit functional form of , the imaginary part of Euler-Heisenberg-Schwinger (EHS) type effective action. We show that is periodic in for any (quasi-)constant electromagnetic field configuration, and equal to the imaginary part obtained using a periodic in Ramanujan integrand in the proper time representation of . This validates the Ramanujan representation of for both real and imaginary parts and allows writing the effective action in a suitably modified Schwinger proper time format. As a function of the ratio between and covariant generalizations of EM fields, we explore the singular properties of at involving the pseudoscalar in perturbative and nonperturbative behavior. We study the -decay vacuum instability, incorporating the physical value of vertex diagrams when summing infinite irreducible loops. We obtain an effective expansion parameter (), characterizing the onset of nonperturbative in suppression of vacuum instability. We demonstrate the domains for which perturbative expansion in breaks down: The EM vacuum subject to critical electric field strength is stabilized in magnetic-dominated \lq magnetar\rq\ environments. Considering separately the case of and fields, we generalize to all the temperature representation of the effective action.
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@article{arxiv.2207.04033,
title = {Singular properties of QED vacuum response to applied quasi-constant electromagnetic fields},
author = {Stefan Evans and Johann Rafelski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.04033},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
16 pages, 5 figures. v2 corrects typos and adds explanations