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  title info:
    title: Probing the Quantum Vacuum
    sub title: Perturbative Effective Action Approach in Quantum Electrodynamics and its Application
  name:
    name part: Dittrich, Walter.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: Gies, Holger.
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2000
    edition: 1st ed. 2000.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 244 p. online resource.
  abstract: This review is devoted to an investigation of the physical properties of the vacuum of quantum electrodynamics, making use of the perturbative-effective action approach. The effect of probing the vacuum with external perturbations is considered, and its response is analyzed after averaging over the high-energy degrees of freedom. The book is written for scientists active in the field as well as for students who want to become familiar with the more advanced computational strategies of external-field problems, some of which are described in detail. Schwinger's proper-time method is the backbone of the book. Many recent results are presented, while others which are widespread in the literature are rederived in a unifying and compact way. The book ranges from the full quantum theory to quantum-induced nonlinear electrodynamics, with a variety of applications to light propagation, photon splitting, and light-by-light scattering. Special emphasis is put on systems at finite temperature.
  table of contents: Nonlinear Electrodynamics: Quantum Theory -- Nonlinear Electrodynamics: Effective-Action Approach -- QED in Two Spatial Dimensions -- Scattering of Light by Light.
  note: by Walter Dittrich, Holger Gies.
  subject:
    topic: Quantum physics
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Physics
  subject:
    topic: Particle and Nuclear Physics
  classification: QC173.96-174.52
  classification: 530.12
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, 166
  identifier: 9783540455851
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45585-X
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    record creation date: 121227
    record change date: 20191024211959.0
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