Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2002-07-16
Phys.Rev. D66 (2002) 085017
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
31 pages, LaTeX 2 epsilon, no figures, some typoes corrected for publication
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.66.085017
We consider $(3+1)$-dimensional, Dirac electrons of arbitrary mass, propagating in the presence of electric and magnetic fields which are both parallel to the $x^3$ axis. The magnetic field is constant in space and time whereas the electric field depends arbitrarily upon the light-cone time parameter $x^+ = (x^0 + x^3)/\sqrt{2}$. We present an explicit solution to the Heisenberg equations for the electron field operator in this background. The electric field results in the creation of electron-positron pairs. We compute the expectation values of the vector and axial vector currents in the presence of a state which is free vacuum at $x^+ = 0$. Both current conservation and the standard result for the axial vector anomaly are verified for the first time ever in $(3+1)$-dimensional light-cone QED. An interesting feature of our operator solution is the fact that it depends in an essential way upon operators from the characteristic at $x^- = -L$, in addition to the usual dependence upon operators at $x^+ = 0$. This dependence survives even in the limit of infinite $L$. Ignoring the $x^-$ operators leads to a progressive loss of unitarity, to the violation of current conservation, to the loss of renormalizability, and to an incorrect result for the axial vector anomaly.
Soussa M. E.
Woodard Richard P.
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