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Vacuum polarization energy of a complex scalar field in a vortex background
| العنوان: | Vacuum polarization energy of a complex scalar field in a vortex background |
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| المؤلفون: | Graham, N., Weigel, H. |
| المصدر: | Phys. Rev. D 101, 076006 (2020) |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| المجموعة: | High Energy Physics - Theory |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | High Energy Physics - Theory |
| الوصف: | Scattering methods make it possible to compute the effects of renormalized quantum fluctuations on classical field configurations. As a classic example of a topologically nontrivial classical solution, the Abrikosov-Nielsen-Olesen vortex in U(1) Higgs-gauge theory provides an ideal case in which to apply these methods. While physically measurable gauge-invariant quantities are always well-behaved, the topological properties of this solution give rise to singularities in gauge-variant quantities used in the scattering problem. In this paper we show how modifications of the standard scattering approach are necessary to maintain gauge invariance within a tractable calculation. We apply this technique to the vortex energy calculation in a simplified model, and show that to obtain accurate results requires an unexpectedly extensive numerical calculation, beyond what has been used in previous work. Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures,v2: typos corrected, v3: figure 2 updated |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.101.076006 |
| الوصول الحر: | http://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09348Test |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsarx.1910.09348 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.101.076006 |
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