Dynamical Chiral Symmetry Breaking in QED in a Magnetic Field: Toward Exact Results
- 16 August 1999
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 83 (7) , 1291-1294
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.83.1291
Abstract
We describe a (first, to the best of our knowledge) essentially soluble example of dynamical symmetry breaking phenomenon in a 3+1 dimensional gauge theory without fundamental scalar fields: QED in a constant magnetic field.Keywords
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