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From the Euler-Heisenberg formula we calculate the exact real part of the one-loop effective Lagrangian of Quantum Electrodynamics in a constant electromagnetic field, and determine its strong-field limit.

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Starting from the Hamiltonian operator of the noncompensated two-sublattice model of a small antiferromagnetic particle, we derive the effective Lagrangian of a biaxial antiferromagnetic particle in an external magnetic field with the help…

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We compute the one-loop anomalous dimensions of the low-energy effective Lagrangian below the electroweak scale, up to terms of dimension six. The theory has 70 dimension-five and 3631 dimension-six Hermitian operators that preserve baryon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-21 Elizabeth E. Jenkins , Aneesh V. Manohar , Peter Stoffer

The hypothesis that the magnetic catalysis of chiral symmetry breaking is due to interactions of massless fermions in their lowest Landau level is examined in the context of chirally symmetric models with short ranged interactions. It is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 G. W. Semenoff , I. A. Shovkovy , L. C. R. Wijewardhana

In nonlinear electrodynamics, by implementing the causality principle as the requirement that the group velocity of elementary excitations over a background field should not exceed the speed of light in the vacuum and the unitarity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-13 Anatoly E. Shabad , Vladimir V. Usov

The catalysis of chiral symmetry breaking in the massless weakly coupled QED in a magnetic field is studied. It is shown that the effect is due to the dimensional reduction $D\to D-2$ in the dynamics of fermion pairing in a magnetic field.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor A. Shovkovy

In 1936, Weisskopf showed that for vanishing electric or magnetic fields the strong-field behavior of the one loop Euler-Heisenberg effective Lagrangian of quantum electro dynamics (QED) is logarithmic. Here we generalize this result for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-08-08 Hagen Kleinert , Eckhard Strobel , She-Sheng Xue

The phenomenon of magnetic catalysis of chiral symmetry breaking in the quantum chromodynamic theory in the framework of logarithmic quark sigma model is studied. Thermodynamic properties are calculated in the mean-field approximation such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-23 M. Abu-Shady

We consider the low energy limit of three dimensional Quantum Chromodynamics with an even number of flavors. We show that Parity is not spontaneously broken, but the global (flavor) symmetry is spontaneously broken. The low energy effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 G. Ferretti , S. G. Rajeev , Z. Yang

By adding a small, irrelevant four fermi interaction to the action of lattice Quantum Electrodynamics (QED), the theory can be simulated with massless quarks in a vacuum free of lattice monopoles. This allows an ab initio high precision,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Kim , J. B. Kogut , M. -P. Lombardo

The short survey of computation and properties of effective Lagrange function of intensive field in two-loop approximation accounting for radiative interaction of virtual electrons is given. The renormalization of field, charge and mass is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. I. Ritus

The effective Lagrangian for \eta' incorporating the effect of the QCD \theta-angle has been developed previously. We revisit this Lagrangian and carry out its canonical quantization with particular attention to the test function spaces of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 A. P. Balachandran , T. R. Govindarajan , Amilcar R. de Queiroz

We consider the low energy effective action of QCD below the chiral symmetry breaking scale, including, in Wilson's spirit, all operators of dimensionality less or equal to 6 which can be built with quark and chiral fields. The effect of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. A. Andrianov , D. Espriu , R. Tarrach

Antiferromagnets and quantum XY magnets in three space dimensions are described by an effective Lagrangian that exhibits the same structure as the effective Lagrangian of quantum chromodynamics with two light flavors. These systems all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-08 Christoph P. Hofmann

We simulate QED in a strong constant homogeneous external magnetic field on a euclidean space-time lattice using the Rational Hybrid Monte Carlo method, developed for simulating lattice QCD. Our primary goal is to measure the chiral…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-11-08 J. B. Kogut , D. K. Sinclair

We have studied electroweak (EW) interactions in quantum hadrodynamics (QHD) effective field theory (EFT). The Lorentz-covariant EFT contains nucleon, pion, $\Delta$, isoscalar scalar ($\sigma$) and vector ($\omega$) fields, and isovector…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-03-20 Brian D. Serot , Xilin Zhang

Inspired by recent discussions of inverse magnetic catalysis in the literature, we examine the effects of a uniform external magnetic field on the chiral phase transition in quenched ladder QED at nonzero chemical potential. In particular,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-01 W. -C. Syu , D. -S. Lee , C. N. Leung

Non-perturbative effect of the formation of a chiral symmetry breaking condensate <\bar\psi\psi> and of a dynamically generated fermion mass in QED in the presence of an external magnetic field is considered. The dynamical mass of a fermion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. P. Gusynin

We derive the chiral effective Lagrangian for heavy-light mesons in the heavy quark limit from QCD under proper approximations. The low energy constants in the effective Lagrangian are expressed in terms of the light quark self-energy. With…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-02 Qing-Sen Chen , Hui-Feng Fu , Yong-Liang Ma , Qing Wang

We discuss the effective field theory (EFT) for nuclear beta decay. The general quark-level EFT describing charged-current interactions between quarks and leptons is matched to the nucleon-level non-relativistic EFT at the O(MeV) momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-29 Adam Falkowski , Martín González-Alonso , Ajdin Palavrić , Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez