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Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 1291–1294 (1999)

Dynamical Chiral Symmetry Breaking in QED in a Magnetic Field: Toward Exact Results

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V. P. Gusynin1, V. A. Miransky1,2, and I. A. Shovkovy3,*
1Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, 252143 Kiev, Ukraine
2Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
3Physics Department, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0011

Received 11 November 1998; published in the issue dated 16 August 1999

We describe an (first, to the best of our knowledge) essentially soluble example of dynamical symmetry breaking phenomenon in a (3+1)-dimensional gauge theory without fundamental scalar fields: QED in a constant magnetic field.

© 1999 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.1291
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.1291
PACS:
11.30.Rd, 11.30.Qc, 12.20.Ds

*On leave of absence from Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, 252143, Kiev, Ukraine.

 
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