TY - JOUR
T1 - One-loop finite temperature effective potential in QED in the worldline approach
AU - Shovkovy, Igor A.
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank V. Gusynin for helpful comments on the manuscript. This work was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy Grant #DE-FG02-84ER40153.
PY - 1998/11/26
Y1 - 1998/11/26
N2 - The one-loop finite temperature effective potential of QED in an external electromagnetic field is obtained using the worldline method. The general structure of the temperature dependent part of the effective action in an arbitrary external inhomogeneous magnetic field is established. The two-derivative effective action of spinor and scalar QED in a static magnetic background at T ≠ 0 is derived.
AB - The one-loop finite temperature effective potential of QED in an external electromagnetic field is obtained using the worldline method. The general structure of the temperature dependent part of the effective action in an arbitrary external inhomogeneous magnetic field is established. The two-derivative effective action of spinor and scalar QED in a static magnetic background at T ≠ 0 is derived.
KW - Quantum electrodynamics
KW - Thermal effective action
KW - Worldline method
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U2 - 10.1016/S0370-2693(98)01202-7
DO - 10.1016/S0370-2693(98)01202-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0347570052
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 441
SP - 313
EP - 318
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
IS - 1-4
ER -