Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 2515–2518 (1997)Quantum Fluctuations and Dynamical ChaosReceived 8 November 1996; published in the issue dated 31 March 1997 We discuss the intimate connection between the chaotic dynamics of a classical field theory and the instability of the one-loop effective action of the associated quantum field theory. Using massless scalar electrodynamics as an example, we show how the radiatively induced spontaneous symmetry breaking stabilizes the vacuum state against chaos. © 1997 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.2515
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.2515
PACS:
05.45.+b, 03.65.Sq, 11.15.Kc, 11.30.Qc
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