Schwinger-Dyson equation approach to chiral symmetry breaking in an external magnetic field

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作者
Leung, CN
Ng, YJ
Ackley, AW
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[1] UNIV N CAROLINA, DEPT PHYS & ASTRON, INST FIELD PHYS, CHAPEL HILL, NC 27599 USA
[2] MIT, CTR THEORET PHYS, CAMBRIDGE, MA 02139 USA
[3] INST ADV STUDY, SCH NAT SCI, PRINCETON, NJ 08540 USA
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PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 1996年 / 54卷 / 06期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.54.4181
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
We develop a method for using the nonperturbative Schwinger-Dyson equation to study chiral symmetry breaking in an external field. We apply it to massless QED in a constant magnetic field and obtain a nontrivial solution for the fermion self-energy at weak coupling, suggesting that chiral symmetry is dynamically broken.
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页码:4181 / 4184
页数:4
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