Two Hartree-Fock models for the vacuum polarization

Séré, Eric; Lewin, Mathieu; Hainzl, Christian; Gravejat, Philippe

Séré, Eric; Lewin, Mathieu; Hainzl, Christian; Gravejat, Philippe (2012), Two Hartree-Fock models for the vacuum polarization, Journées EDP 2012, 2012-06, Biarritz, France

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Communication / Conférence

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http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00736002

Date

2012

Conference title

Journées EDP 2012

Conference date

2012-06

Conference city

Biarritz

Conference country

France

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Author(s)

Séré, Eric
Lewin, Mathieu

Hainzl, Christian
Gravejat, Philippe

Abstract (EN)

We review recent results about the derivation and the analysis of two Hartree-Fock-type models for the polarization of vacuum. We pay particular attention to the variational construction of a self-consistent polarized vacuum, and to the physical agreement between our non-perturbative construction and the perturbative description provided by Quantum Electrodynamics.

Subjects / Keywords

Quantum Electrodynamics; charge renormalization; Pauli-Villars regularization; Bogoliubov-Dirac-Fock model; Hartree-Fock approximation; Dirac sea; Vacuum polarization