Quantum effects in the evolution of vortices in the electromagnetic field

Abstract

We analyze the influence of electron-positron pairs creation on the motion of vortex lines in electromagnetic field. In our approach the electric and magnetic fields satisfy nonlinear equations derived from the Euler-Heisenberg effective Lagrangian. We show that these nonlinearities may change the evolution of vortices.

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References in corpus (1)

• Vortex lines of the electromagnetic field

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