Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangian under an axial gauge field
arXiv:2208.12913 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.107.056016
Abstract
Augmentations to the Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangian (QED one-loop effective action in homogeneous electromagnetic fields) under a constant background axial gauge are examined. Two special configurations admit an exact eigendecomposition, and hence effective action as a spectral sum, of the augmented Dirac operator: one with a magnetic field with chiral chemical potential, and the other with an electric field with spatial axial gauge, which resembles an emergent vorticity. An enhancement to Schwinger pair production is found for the latter, which is more fully analyzed using the worldline instanton formalism. There it is found the overall enhancement is due to the spatial axial gauge serving as a negative mass shift. Finally, we remark on the exactly solvable massless case for arbitrary electromagnetic and axial gauges.
arXiv comment17 pages, 1 figure; version accepted for publication in Physical Review D
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