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Using the Worldline formalism of QED we compute the two-loop effective action induced by a charged scalar, respectively spinor particle in a general constant electromagnetic field.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-13 Boris Körs , Michael G. Schmidt

This thesis applies techniques from quantum field theory in curved spacetimes to study particle creation in external fields, focusing on the Schwinger effect (i.e., the production of particle-antiparticle pairs by intense electric fields).…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-13 Álvaro Álvarez-Domínguez

Motivated by the seminal work of Schwinger, we obtain explicit closed form expressions for the one-loop effective action in a constant electromagnetic field. We discuss both massive and massless charged scalars and spinors in two, three,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-11-10 Steven K. Blau , Matt Visser , Andreas Wipf

The vacuum of quantum electrodynamics is unstable against the formation of many-body states in the presence of an external electric field, manifesting itself as the creation of electron-positron pairs (Schwinger effect). This effect has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-01 Florian Hebenstreit

We study the electric permittivity of the QED vacuum in the presence of a strong constant electric field, motivated by the analogy between the dynamically-assisted Schwinger effect in strong-field QED and the Franz-Keldysh effect in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-24 Hidetoshi Taya , Charlie Ironside

We investigate scalar field theories in de Sitter space by means of nonperturbative renormalization group techniques. We compute the functional flow equation for the effective potential of O(N) theories in the local potential approximation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-14 Maxime Guilleux , Julien Serreau

We analyze some crucial questions regarding the practical feasibility of quantum simulation for lattice gauge models. Our analysis focuses on two models suitable for the quantum simulation of the Schwinger Hamiltonian, or QED in 1+1…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-11 Stefan Kühn , J. Ignacio Cirac , Mari-Carmen Bañuls

We give a mathematical construction of Euclidean quantum field theory on certain curved backgrounds. We focus on generalizing Osterwalder-Schrader quantization, as these methods have proved useful to establish estimates for interacting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Arthur Jaffe , Gordon Ritter

We provide a pedagogical review of the Schwinger effect, i.e., the non-perturbative production of particle and anti-particle pairs from the vacuum by strong fields, as well as related strong-field phenomena. Beginning with an overview of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-10 Hidetoshi Taya

The one-loop effective action of QED is calculated by the Schwinger method in Krein space quantization. We show that the effective action is naturally fnite and regularized. It also coincides with the renormalized solution which was derived…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Refaei , M. V. Takook

The quantum electrodynamics (QED) on a spatially flat $(1+3)$-dimensional Friedmann-Lema\^ itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) spacetime with a Milne-type scale factor is outlined focusing on the amplitudes of the allowed effects in the first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-24 Ion I. Cotaescu , Diana Popescu

We use the evolution operator method to find the one-loop effective action of scalar and spinor QED in electric field backgrounds in terms of the Bogoliubov coefficient between the ingoing and the outgoing vacua. We obtain the exact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-18 Sang Pyo Kim , Hyun Kyu Lee , Yongsung Yoon

This paper contains a collection of essays on nonlocal phenomena in quantum field theory, gravity and cosmology. Mechanisms of nonlocal contributions to the quantum effective action are discussed within the covariant perturbation expansion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 A. O. Barvinsky

We trace what happens with asymptotically free behavior of the running coupling in $\phi^{3}$ theory in six-dimensional space-time if to compactify two spatial dimensions on a 2D closed manifold. The result can be considered as an effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-05 A. V. Kisselev , V. A. Petrov

Quantum photon effects in vacuum provide an interesting setting to test quantum electrodynamics, serving as a source for predictions about physics beyond the Standard Model. In this paper, we investigate these effects by calculating the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-27 L. C. T. Brito , J. C. C. Felipe , A. C. Lehum , J. R. Nascimento , A. Yu. Petrov

Conventional formulation of QED since the 50s works very well for stationary states and for scattering problems, but with newly arisen challenges from the 80s on, where real time evolution of particles in a nonequilibrium setting are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-16 Shih-Yuin Lin , Bei-Lok Hu

Effective mass and energy are investigated using the Schwinger-Dyson equation (SDE) in the complex plane. As simple examples, we solve the SDE for the (1+1)-dimensional model and the strongly coupled quantum electrodynamics (QED). We also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-19 Hidekazu Tanaka , Shuji Sasagawa

Scalar field vacuum energy and particle creation in a 3D Casimir apparatus, freely falling in the Schwarzschild spacetime, are considered in the reference frame of a comoving observer. Following Schwinger's proper time approach, Casimir…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-12 Francesco Sorge

We develop the in-out formalism for one-loop effective actions in electromagnetic fields in the space-dependent gauge. We further advance a method using the inverse scattering matrix to calculate the effective actions in pure magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-22 Sang Pyo Kim

The derivative expansion of the one-loop effective Lagrangian in QED$_4$ is considered. The first term in such an expansion is the famous Schwinger result for a constant electromagnetic field. In this paper we give an explicit expression…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 V. P. Gusynin , I. A. Shovkovy