Time Evolution of the External Field Problem in QED

Details Time Evolution of the External Field Problem in QED Time Evolution of the External Field Problem in QED

2009-05-30

arxiv.org/abs/0906.0046v2

J.Math.Phys.51:122301,2010

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Mathematical Physics

60 pages, 1 figure, revised introduction, summary of results added, typos corrected

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We construct the time-evolution for the second quantized Dirac equation subject to a smooth, compactly supported, time dependent electromagnetic potential and identify the degrees of freedom involved. Earlier works on this (e.g. Ruijsenaars) observed the Shale-Stinespring condition and showed that the one-particle time-evolution can be lifted to Fock space if and only if the external field had zero magnetic components. We scrutinize the idea, observed earlier by Fierz and Scharf, that the time-evolution can be implemented between time varying Fock spaces. In order to define these Fock spaces we are led to consider classes of reference vacua and polarizations. We show that this implementation is up to a phase independent of the chosen reference vacuum or polarization and that all induced transition probabilities are well-defined and unique.

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