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From Heisenberg–Euler Lagrangian to the discovery of Chromomagnetic Gluon Condensation

George Savvidy

2020The European Physical Journal C17 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

Abstract I reexamine the phenomena of the chromomagnetic gluon condensation in Yang–Mills theory. The extension of the Heisenberg–Euler Lagrangian to the Yang–Mills theory allows to calculate the effective action, the energy-momentum tensor and demonstrate that the energy density curve crosses the zero energy level of the perturbative vacuum state at nonzero angle and continuously enters to the negative energy density region. At the crossing point and further down the effective coupling constant is small and demonstrate that the true vacuum state of the Yang–Mills theory is below the perturbative vacuum state and is described by the nonzero chromomagnetic gluon condensate. The renormalisation group analyses allows to express the energy momentum tensor, its trace and the vacuum magnetic permeabilities in QED and QCD in terms of effective coupling constant and Callan–Symanzik beta function. In the vacuum the energy-momentum tensor is proportional to the space-time metric, and it induces a negative contribution to the effective cosmological constant.

Topics & Concepts

PhysicsGluonCoupling constantQuantum electrodynamicsQCD vacuumQuantum chromodynamicsVacuum energyVacuum stateGluon condensateGluon fieldTensor (intrinsic definition)Stress–energy tensorCoupling (piping)Particle physicsQED vacuumMomentum (technical analysis)Zero-point energyNon-perturbativeConstant (computer programming)Quantum mechanicsQuark–gluon plasmaCondensationPerturbative QCDFalse vacuumCritical point (mathematics)Energy (signal processing)Mathematical physicsPerturbation theory (quantum mechanics)Cosmological constantQuantum field theoryEnergy densityQuantum and Classical ElectrodynamicsQuantum Chromodynamics and Particle InteractionsParticle physics theoretical and experimental studies
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