Vacuum Polarization Using Quantum Mechanical Path Integrals
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We compute the quantum vacuum polarization for a pure neutral scalar field theory within the context of single-particle quantum mechanics. The loop diagram is computed without ever encountering loop-momentum integrals. Our approach is based on standard Feynman path integrals. Contact is made to scalar QED.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0005231,
title = {Vacuum Polarization Using Quantum Mechanical Path Integrals},
author = {Walter Dittrich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0005231},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
17 pages, 2 figures