Monday, April 16, 2012

1204.2893 (Philippe Gravejat et al.)

Construction of the Pauli-Villars-regulated Dirac vacuum in
electromagnetic fields
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Philippe Gravejat, Christian Hainzl, Mathieu Lewin, Eric Séré
Using the Pauli-Villars regularization and arguments from convex analysis, we construct the polarized Dirac vacuum, in the presence of small external electromagnetic fields. We describe the electrons by a Hartree-Fock-type theory and the photons by a self-consistent classical magnetic potential. The resulting vacuum polarization coincides on first order with that of full Quantum Electrodynamics.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.2893

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