Speaker
Shang-Yung Wang
(Tamkang University)
Description
In this talk we will discuss interesting aspects of QED in an intense magnetic field in the context of nonperturbative QED. We show that thanks to the magnetic catalysis of chiral symmetry breaking (i) there is a few percent increase in the electron mass around $10^{15}$ Gauss, the typical magnetic fields on the surface of young neutron stars, and (ii) the magnetized QED vacuum is stable for all values of the magnetic field.
Primary author
Shang-Yung Wang
(Tamkang University)
