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The full Lorentz-violating vacuum polarization tensor: low and high energy limits

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-08-24 v2

Abstract

We compute the full vacuum polarization tensor in the fermion sector of Lorentz-violating QED. Even if we assume momentum routing invariance of the Feynman diagrams, it is not possible to fix all surface terms and find an unambiguity free vacuum polarization tensor. The high and low energy limits of this tensor is presented. In the high energy limit, only cμνc_{\mu\nu} coeffcients contribute. In the low energy limit, we fnd that Lorentz-violating induced terms depend only on bμb_{\mu}, cμνc_{\mu\nu} and gμνλg_{\mu\nu\lambda} coeffcients and they are suppressed by powers of p2m2\frac{p^{2}}{m^{2}}. This limit allows to obtain implications for condensed matter systems, explicitly, for the Hall effect in Weyl semimetals.

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@article{arxiv.2302.05236,
  title  = {The full Lorentz-violating vacuum polarization tensor: low and high energy limits},
  author = {J. C. C. Felipe and A. Yu. Petrov and A. P. Baêta Scarpelli and A. R. Vieira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.05236},
  year   = {2023}
}

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11 pages, 4 figures

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