The Heisenberg-Euler Effective Action: 75 Years on
Abstract
On this 75th anniversary of the publication of the Heisenberg-Euler paper on the full nonperturbative one-loop effective action for quantum electrodynamics I review their paper and discuss some of the impacts it has had on quantum field theory.
- Publication:
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International Journal of Modern Physics A
- Pub Date:
- June 2012
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1202.1557
- Bibcode:
- 2012IJMPA..2760004D
- Keywords:
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- Quantum electrodynamics;
- effective action;
- effective field theory;
- 12.20.-m;
- 01.65.+g;
- 11.10.-z;
- 11.15.-q;
- Quantum electrodynamics;
- History of science;
- Field theory;
- Gauge field theories;
- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 10 pages