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Agullo, I.; del Rio, A.; Navarro-Salas, J. |
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Classical and quantum aspects of electric-magnetic duality rotations in curved spacetimes |
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Journal Article |
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2018 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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98 |
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12 |
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125001 - 22pp |
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It is well known that the source-free Maxwell equations are invariant under electric-magnetic duality rotations, F -> F cos theta +*F sin theta. These transformations are indeed a symmetry of the theory in the Noether sense. The associated constant of motion is the difference in the intensity between self-dual and anti-self-dual components of the electromagnetic field or, equivalently, the difference between the right and left circularly polarized components. This conservation law holds even if the electromagnetic field interacts with an arbitrary classical gravitational background. After reexamining these results, we discuss whether this symmetry is maintained when the electromagnetic field is quantized. The answer is in the affirmative in the absence of gravity but not necessarily otherwise. As a consequence, the net polarization of the quantum electromagnetic field fails to be conserved in curved spacetimes. This is a quantum effect, and it can be understood as the generalization of the fermion chiral anomaly to fields of spin one. |
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[Agullo, Ivan] Louisiana State Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA, Email: agullo@lsu.edu; |
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Amer Physical Soc |
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2470-0010 |
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WOS:000451998400004 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3824 |
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Beltran-Palau, P.; Navarro-Salas, J.; Pla, S. |
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Translational anomaly of chiral fermions in two dimensions |
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Journal Article |
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2019 |
Publication |
Physical Review D |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Rev. D |
| Volume |
99 |
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10 |
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105008 - 5pp |
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It is well known that a quantized two-dimensional Weyl fermion coupled to gravity spoils general covariance and breaks the covariant conservation of the energy-momentum tensor. In this brief article, we point out that the quantum conservation of the momentum can also fail in flat spacetime, provided the Weyl fermion is coupled to a time-varying homogeneous electric field. This signals a quantum anomaly of the space-translation symmetry, which has not been highlighted in the literature so far. |
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[Beltran-Palau, Pau; Navarro-Salas, Jose; Pla, Silvia] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, Ctr Mixto, CSIC,Fac Fis, E-46100 Valencia, Spain, Email: pau.beltran@uv.es; |
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Amer Physical Soc |
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2470-0010 |
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WOS:000468223500013 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4011 |
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Beltran-Palau, P.; Ferreiro, A.; Navarro-Salas, J.; Pla, S. |
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Breaking of adiabatic invariance in the creation of particles by electromagnetic backgrounds |
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Journal Article |
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2019 |
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Physical Review D |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Rev. D |
| Volume |
100 |
Issue |
8 |
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085014 - 12pp |
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Particles are spontaneously created from the vacuum by time-varying gravitational or electromagnetic backgrounds. It has been proven that the particle number operator in an expanding universe is an adiabatic invariant. In this paper we show that, in some special cases, the expected adiabatic invariance of the particle number fails in presence of electromagnetic backgrounds. In order to do this, we consider as a prototype a Sauter-type electric pulse. Furthermore, we also show a close relation between the breaking of the adiabatic invariance and the emergence of the axial anomaly. |
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[Beltran-Palau, Pau; Ferreiro, Antonio; Navarro-Salas, Jose; Pla, Silvia] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Ctr Mixto, Fac Fis,Dept Fis Teor, E-46100 Valencia, Spain, Email: pau.beltran@uv.es; |
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Amer Physical Soc |
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WOS:000491467800009 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4184 |
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Ferreiro, A.; Navarro-Salas, J.; Pla, S. |
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R-summed form of adiabatic expansions in curved spacetime |
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Journal Article |
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2020 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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101 |
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10 |
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105011 - 12pp |
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The Feynman propagator in curved spacetime admits an asymptotic (Schwinger-DeWitt) series expansion in derivatives of the metric. Remarkably, all terms in the series containing the Ricci scalar R can be summed exactly. We show that this (nonperturbative) property of the Schwinger-DeWitt series has a natural and equivalent counterpart in the adiabatic (Parker-Fulling) series expansion of the scalar modes in an homogeneous cosmological spacetime. The equivalence between both R-summed adiabatic expansions can be further extended when a background scalar field is also present. |
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[Ferreiro, Antonio] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Fac Fis, Ctr Mixto,Dept Fis Teor, Valencia 46100, Spain, Email: antonio.ferreiro@ific.uv.es; |
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Amer Physical Soc |
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WOS:000532656100007 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4395 |
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Beltran-Palau, P.; Navarro-Salas, J.; Pla, S. |
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Adiabatic regularization for Dirac fields in time-varying electric backgrounds |
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Journal Article |
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2020 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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101 |
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10 |
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105014 - 15pp |
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The adiabatic regularization method was originally proposed by Parker and Fulling to renormalize the energy-momentum tensor of scalar fields in expanding universes. It can be extended to renormalize the electric current induced by quantized scalar fields in a time-varying electric background. This can be done in a way consistent with gravity if the vector potential is considered as a variable of adiabatic order one. Assuming this, we further extend the method to deal with Dirac fields in four space-time dimensions. This requires a self-consistent ansatz for the adiabatic expansion, in presence of a prescribed time-dependent electric field, which is different from the conventional expansion used for scalar fields. Our proposal is consistent, in the massless limit, with the conformal anomaly. We also provide evidence that our proposed adiabatic expansion for the fermionic modes parallels the Schwinger-DeWitt adiabatic expansion of the two-point function. We give the renormalized expression of the electric current and analyze, using numerical and analytical tools, the pair production induced by a Sauter-type electric pulse. We also analyze the scaling properties of the current for a large field strength. |
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[Beltran-Palau, Pau; Navarro-Salas, Jose; Pla, Silvia] Univ Valencia, Fac Fis, Ctr Mixto Univ Valencia CSIC, Dept Fis Teor, Valencia 46100, Spain, Email: pau.beltran@uv.es; |
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Amer Physical Soc |
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1550-7998 |
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WOS:000534174400011 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4399 |
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