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hep-th20081 cited

Simplified Vacuum Energy Expressions for Radial Backgrounds and Domain Walls

Gerald Dunne, Klaus Kirsten

We extend our previous results of simplified expressions for functional determinants for radial Schrödinger operators to the computation of vacuum energy, or mass corrections, for…

hep-th200838 cited

Giving up the ghost

Carl M. Bender, Philip D. Mannheim

The Pais-Uhlenbeck model is a quantum theory described by a higher-derivative field equation. It has been believed for many years that this model possesses ghost states (quantum st…

hep-th2008368 cited

Dynamically assisted Schwinger mechanism

Ralf Schützhold, Holger Gies, Gerald Dunne

We study electron-positron pair creation {from} the Dirac vacuum induced by a strong and slowly varying electric field (Schwinger effect) which is superimposed by a weak and rapidl…

hep-th2008129 cited

A Twisted Kink Crystal in the Chiral Gross-Neveu model

Gokce Basar, Gerald V. Dunne

We present the detailed properties of a self-consistent crystalline chiral condensate in the massless chiral Gross-Neveu model. We show that a suitable ansatz for the Gorkov resolv…

hep-th2008159 cited

Self-consistent crystalline condensate in chiral Gross-Neveu and Bogoliubov-de Gennes systems

Gokce Basar, Gerald V. Dunne

We derive a new exact self-consistent crystalline condensate in the 1+1 dimensional chiral Gross-Neveu model. This also yields a new exact crystalline solution for the one dimensio…

hep-th200714 cited

Renormalized Effective Actions in Radially Symmetric Backgrounds: Exact Calculations Versus Approximation Methods

Gerald V. Dunne, Jin Hur, Choonkyu Lee +1

Our previously-developed calculational method (the partial wave cutoff method) is employed to evaluate explicitly scalar one-loop effective actions in a class of radially symmetric…