Probing the quantum vacuum : pertubative effective action approach in quantum electrodynamics and its application /

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dittrich, Walter
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Gies, Holger, 1972-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2000]
Series:Springer tracts in modern physics ; 166.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Non-linear Electrodynamics: Quantum Theory
  • Non-linear Electrodynamics: Effective Action Approach
  • Quantum Electrodynamics at Two Spatial Dimensions
  • Scattering of Light by Light
  • Appendix
  • References
  • Index.