Fractional Effective Action at strong electromagnetic fields
arXiv:1305.3133 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.88.025049
Abstract
In 1936, Weisskopf showed that for vanishing electric or magnetic fields the strong-field behavior of the one loop Euler-Heisenberg effective Lagrangian of quantum electro dynamics (QED) is logarithmic. Here we generalize this result for different limits of the Lorentz invariants \(\vec{E}^2-\vec{B}^2\) and \(\vec{B}\cdot\vec{E}\). The logarithmic dependence can be interpreted as a lowest-order manifestation of an anomalous power behavior of the effective Lagrangian of QED, with critical exponents \(δ=e^2/(12π)\) for spinor QED, and \(δ_S=δ/4\) for scalar QED.
19 pages, v2: Some minor clarifications added in introduction and conclusions. Final version