General Information

Professor:

Prof. Dr. Frans R. Klinkhamer

Assistants:

Dr. Viacheslav Emelyanov (, ) & Dr. José Queiruga ()

Seminar topic:

We will discuss chapter by chapter the book by W. Dittrich & H. Gies:

Probing the Quantum Vacuum. Perturbative Effective Action Approach in Quantum Electrodynamics and its Application

Seminar time:

Mondays between 15:45 - 17:15

The first meeting is scheduled for October 24, 2016.

Seminar place:

Seminar room 12-01 in the building 30.23

Sign-up:

If you would like to participate in the seminar, you must attend the first meeting, in which the seminar topics will be distributed.

If for some reason you cannot attend the first meeting, please contact Dr. Emelyanov beforehand.

Plan of Seminar

Topic

Section

Date

Speaker

1

Proper-time method & Polarization tensor

2.1-2.2

31.10.2016

T.M.

2

Induced electromagnetic current

2.3

07.11.2016

V.E.

3

Schwinger's equivalence theorem & Axial anomaly

2.4

14.11.2016

X.L.

4

Light cone condition (LCC)

3.1-3.2

21.11.2016

M.G.

5

LCC for various vacua & Photon splitting*

3.3-3.4

28.11.2016

F.L.

6

QED effective action at to 1-loop

3.5

05.12.2016

K.G.

7

QED effective action at : 2-loop dominance

3.6.1-3.6.2

12.12.2016

V.E.

8

QED effective action at : 2-loop dominance

3.6.3-3.6.5

16.01.2017

X.L.

9

QED in two spatial dimensions

4.1-4.3

23.01.2017

P.N.

10

Scattering of light by light

5.1-5.2

30.01.2017

J.Q.

News*

An experimental discovery of the vacuum polarisation effect in the strong magnetic field has been recently announced in arXiv:1610.08323.