Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2005-10-06
Nucl.Phys.B747:266-293,2006
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
37 pages, 5 figures, typos corrected, published version
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2006.04.028
The gauge independence of the dynamical fermion mass generated through chiral symmetry breaking in QED in a strong, constant external magnetic field is critically examined. We show that the bare vertex approximation, in which the vertex corrections are ignored, is a consistent truncation of the Schwinger-Dyson equations in the lowest Landau level approximation. The dynamical fermion mass, obtained as the solution of the truncated Schwinger-Dyson equations evaluated on the fermion mass shell, is shown to be manifestly gauge independent. By establishing a direct correspondence between the truncated Schwinger-Dyson equations and the 2PI (two-particle-irreducible) effective action truncated at the lowest nontrivial order in the loop expansion as well as in the 1/N_f expansion (N_f is the number of fermion flavors), we argue that in a strong magnetic field the dynamical fermion mass can be reliably calculated in the bare vertex approximation.
Leung Chung Ngoc
Wang Shang-Yung
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