Probing the Quantum Vacuum Perturbative Effective Action Approach in Quantum Electrodynamics and its Application /

• Main Authors: Dittrich, Walter (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Gies, Holger (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2000.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2000.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, 166
• Subjects: Quantum physics.; Nuclear physics.; Quantum Physics.; Particle and Nuclear Physics.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Nonlinear Electrodynamics: Quantum Theory
• Nonlinear Electrodynamics: Effective-Action Approach
• QED in Two Spatial Dimensions
• Scattering of Light by Light.