CANONICAL AND PATH-INTEGRAL QUANTIZATIONS IN AO=O GAUGE - ABELIAN CASE

被引:15
作者
CHANG, SS
机构
[1] Physics Department, Syracuse University, Syracuse
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 1978年 / 17卷 / 10期
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.17.2611
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
It is shown that both canonical and path-integral quantizations of an electromagnetic field coupled with point charged particles can be carried out in the A0=0 gauge by the usual rules without fixing the gauge completely and eliminating the longitudinal degrees of freedom. A Coulomb interaction potential is obtained as an effective potential either by separating the longitudinal-mode variables in the Schrödinger differential equation or by integrating all longitudinal-mode quantum fluctuations in the Feynman path integral. There is no Faddeev-Popov ghost or infinite gauge volume factor in our path-integral treatment. © 1978 The American Physical Society.
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页码:2611 / 2618
页数:8
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