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Singular properties of QED vacuum response to applied quasi-constant electromagnetic fields

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-11-07 v2

Abstract

Employing the Bogoliubov coefficient summation method and introducing the gyromagnetic ratio g2g\neq 2 we derive an explicit functional form of ImVgEHS\mathfrak{Im}V^\mathrm{EHS}_g, the imaginary part of Euler-Heisenberg-Schwinger (EHS) type effective action. We show that ImVgEHS\mathfrak{Im}V^\mathrm{EHS}_g is periodic in gg for any (quasi-)constant electromagnetic field configuration, and equal to the imaginary part obtained using a periodic in gg Ramanujan integrand in the proper time representation of VgEHSV^\mathrm{EHS}_g. This validates the Ramanujan representation of VgEHSV^\mathrm{EHS}_g 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 b/ab/a between Bb{\mathcal{B}} \to b and Ea{\mathcal{E}}\to a covariant generalizations of EM fields, we explore the singular properties of ImVgEHS\mathfrak{Im}V^\mathrm{EHS}_g at g=2±4k,k=0,±1,±2g=2\pm 4k, k=0,\pm1,\pm2\ldots involving the pseudoscalar abEBab\equiv \vec{\mathcal{E}}\cdot\vec{\mathcal{B}} in perturbative and nonperturbative behavior. We study the ee+e^-e^+-decay vacuum instability, incorporating the physical value of g2g-2 vertex diagrams when summing infinite irreducible loops. We obtain an effective expansion parameter χb=αb/2a\chi_b=\alpha b/2a (α=e2/4π\alpha=e^2/4\pi), characterizing the onset of nonperturbative in g2g-2 suppression of vacuum instability. We demonstrate the χb\chi_b domains for which perturbative expansion in α\alpha 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 E{\mathcal{E}} and B{\mathcal{B}} fields, we generalize to all gg the temperature representation of the VgEHSV^\mathrm{EHS}_g 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