Probing the Quantum Vacuum Perturbative Effective Action Approach in Quantum Electrodynamics and its Application / by Walter Dittrich, Holger Gies.

This review is devoted to an investigation of the physical properties of the vacuum of quantum electrodynamics, making use of the perturbative-effective action approach. The effect of probing the vacuum with external perturbations is considered, and its response is analyzed after averaging over the...

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Main Authors: Dittrich, Walter (Author), Gies, Holger (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2000.
Edition:1st ed. 2000.
Series:Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, 166
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