Methods of one-loop in quantum field theory with strong background fields that violate vacuum stability

• Grant number: 17/05734-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: June 01, 2017
• End date: May 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Elementary Particle Physics and Fields
• Principal Investigator: Dmitri Maximovitch Guitman
• Grantee: Aleksei Shishmarev
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física (IF). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 16/03319-6 - Non perturbative methods in quantum theory and QFT and their application to actual physical problems, AP.TEM

Abstract

This project covers some problems in Quantum Field Theory (QFT) with strong background fields that violate vacuum stability. The one-loop methods of QFT and Dirac model in the intense field and their application to the physics of graphene and topological insulators will be studied. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

GAVRILOV, S. P.; GITMAN, D. M.; SHISHMAREV, A. A.. Pair production from the vacuum by a weakly inhomogeneous space-dependent electric potential. Physical Review D, v. 99, n. 11, JUN 19 2019. (16/03319-6, 17/05734-3)

GAVRILOV, S. P.; GITMAN, D. M.; SHISHMAREV, A. A.. Pair production from the vacuum by a weakly inhomogeneous space-dependent electric potential. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, v. 99, n. 11, p. 14-pg., 2019-06-19. (17/05734-3, 16/03319-6)