Schwinger-Dyson equation approach to chiral symmetry breaking in an external magnetic field

Leung, Chung Ngoc; Ng, Y.J.; Ackley, A.W.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.54.4181

Schwinger-Dyson equation approach to chiral symmetry breaking in an external magnetic field

Chung Ngoc Leung
(
- Delaware U. and
- North Carolina U.
)
,
Y.J. Ng
(
- North Carolina U. and
- MIT, LNS and
- Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study
)
,
A.W. Ackley
(
- North Carolina U.
)

1996

11 pages

Published in:

Phys.Rev.D 54 (1996) 4181-4184

e-Print:

hep-th/9512114 [hep-th]

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevD.54.4181

Report number:

UDHEP-12-95,
IFP-603-UNC

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Abstract:

Using the nonperturbative Schwinger-Dyson equation, we show that chiral symmetry in weak-coupling massless QED is dynamically broken by a constant but arbitrarily strong external magnetic field.

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Latex; 11 pages

11.30.Rd
12.20.Ds
11.30.Qc
Dyson-Schwinger equation
symmetry breaking: chiral
magnetic field: external field
weak coupling: quantum electrodynamics
quantum electrodynamics: weak coupling
quantum electrodynamics: massless
dynamical symmetry breaking

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