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Author Agullo, I.; Landete, A.; Navarro-Salas, J.
Title Electric-magnetic duality and renormalization in curved spacetimes Type Journal Article
Year 2014 Publication Physical Review D Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. D
Volume 90 Issue 12 Pages 124067 - 7pp
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Abstract (down) We point out that the duality symmetry of free electromagnetism does not hold in the quantum theory if an arbitrary classical gravitational background is present. The symmetry breaks in the process of renormalization, as also happens with conformal invariance. We show that a similar duality anomaly appears for a massless scalar field in 1 + 1 dimensions.
Address [Agullo, Ivan; Landete, Aitor] Louisiana State Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA, Email: agullo@lsu.edu;
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Publisher Amer Physical Soc Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1550-7998 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000348361600012 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 2089
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Author Ferreiro, A.; Navarro-Salas, J.
Title Pair creation in electric fields, anomalies, and renormalization of the electric current Type Journal Article
Year 2018 Publication Physical Review D Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. D
Volume 97 Issue 12 Pages 125012 - 13pp
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Abstract (down) We investigate the Schwinger pair production phenomena in spatially homogeneous strong electric fields. We first consider scalar QED in four-dimensions and discuss the potential ambiguity in the adiabatic order assignment for the electromagnetic potential required to fix the renormalization subtractions. We argue that this ambiguity can be solved by invoking the conformal anomaly when both electric and gravitational backgrounds are present. We also extend the adiabatic regularization method for spinor QED in two-dimensions and find consistency with the chiral anomaly. We focus on the issue of the renormalization of the electric current < j(mu)> generated by the created pairs. We illustrate how to implement the renormalization of the electric current for the Sauter pulse.
Address [Ferreiro, Antonio; Navarro-Salas, Jose] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, Ctr Mixto, CSIC,Fac Fis, E-46100 Valencia, Spain, Email: antonio.ferreiro@ific.uv.es;
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Amer Physical Soc Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 2470-0010 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000435335000014 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration no
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 3623
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Author Barbero, J.F.; Ferreiro, A.; Navarro-Salas, J.; Villaseñor, E.J.S.
Title Adiabatic expansions for Dirac fields, renormalization, and anomalies Type Journal Article
Year 2018 Publication Physical Review D Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. D
Volume 98 Issue 2 Pages 025016 - 11pp
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Abstract (down) We introduce an iterative method to univocally determine the adiabatic expansion of the modes of Dirac fields in spatially homogeneous external backgrounds. We overcome the ambiguities found in previous studies and use this new procedure to improve the adiabatic regularization/renormalization scheme. We provide details on the application of the method for Dirac fields living in a four-dimensional Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker spacetime with a Yukawa coupling to an external scalar field. We check the consistency of our proposal by working out the conformal anomaly. We also analyze a two-dimensional Dirac field in Minkowski space coupled to a homogeneous electric field and reproduce the known results on the axial anomaly. The adiabatic expansion of the modes given here can be used to properly characterize the allowed physical states of the Dirac fields in the above external backgrounds.
Address [Barbero G, J. Fernando] CSIC, Inst Estruct Mat, E-28006 Madrid, Spain, Email: fbarbero@iem.cfmac.csic.es;
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Amer Physical Soc Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 2470-0010 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000439414000006 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration no
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 3673
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Author Landete, A.; Navarro-Salas, J.; Torrenti, F.
Title Adiabatic regularization for spin-1/2 fields Type Journal Article
Year 2013 Publication Physical Review D Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. D
Volume 88 Issue 6 Pages 061501 - 5pp
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Abstract (down) We extend the adiabatic regularization method to spin-1/2 fields. The ansatz for the adiabatic expansion for fermionic modes differs significantly from the WKB-type template that works for scalar modes. We give explicit expressions for the first adiabatic orders and analyze particle creation in de Sitter spacetime. As for scalar fields, the adiabatic method can be distinguished by its capability to overcome the UV divergences of the particle number operator. We also test the consistency of the extended method by working out the conformal and axial anomalies for a Dirac field in a Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker spacetime, in exact agreement with those obtained from other renormalization prescriptions. We finally show its power by computing the renormalized stress-energy tensor for Dirac fermions in de Sitter space.
Address [Landete, Aitor] Univ Valencia, Fac Fis, Ctr Mixto Univ Valencia CSIC, Dept Fis, Burjassot 46100, Valencia, Spain
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Amer Physical Soc Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 1550-7998 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000323894000001 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration no
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 1566
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Author del Rio, A.; Ferreiro, A.; Navarro-Salas, J.; Torrenti, F.
Title Adiabatic regularization with a Yukawa interaction Type Journal Article
Year 2017 Publication Physical Review D Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. D
Volume 95 Issue 10 Pages 105003 - 19pp
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Abstract (down) We extend the adiabatic regularization method for an expanding universe to include the Yukawa interaction between quantized Dirac fermions and a homogeneous background scalar field. We give explicit expressions for the renormalized expectation values of the stress-energy tensor < T-mu nu > and the bilinear <(psi) over bar psi > in a spatially flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) spacetime. These are basic ingredients in the semiclassical field equations of fermionic matter in curved spacetime interacting with a background scalar field. The ultraviolet subtracting terms of the adiabatic regularization can be naturally interpreted as coming from appropriate counterterms of the background fields. We fix the required covariant counterterms. To test our approach we determine the contribution of the Yukawa interaction to the conformal anomaly in the massless limit and show its consistency with the heat-kernel method using the effective action.
Address [del Rio, Adrian; Ferreiro, Antonio; Navarro-Salas, Jose] Univ Valencia, Fac Fis, Ctr Mixto Univ Valencia CSIC, Dept Fis Teor, E-46100 Valencia, Spain, Email: adrian.rio@uv.es;
Corporate Author Thesis
Publisher Amer Physical Soc Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 2470-0010 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000401447900006 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration no
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 3127
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