Effective potential and mass behavior of a self-interacting scalar field theory due to thermal and external electric and magnetic fields effects

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Abstract

In this article we address the subject of finding the behavior of a charged scalar field ϕ under the influence of external constant magnetic and electric fields, perpendicular to each other, including also thermal effects. For this purpose we derive an expression for the corresponding bosonic propagator. As an application, we explore, in the weak field sector, the mass correction for the self interacting λϕ4 theory when only one type of field, including finite temperature, is present and the case where both fields are included in the analysis. We also analyze the phase diagram associated to spontaneous symmetry breaking of the theory finding inverse magnetic catalysis (IMC) or inverse electric catalysis (IEC) for the cases where only a magnetic field or only an electric field are present, respectively. In both cases, taken separately, we have a scenario where the critical temperature associate to symmetry restoration diminishes as function of the corresponding field strengths. A similar situation happens when both type of fields are simultaneously present. We have dubbed this case as inverse magnetic -electric catalysis (IMEC). In this situation, both fields cooperate for the occurrence of IMEC.

Original languageEnglish
Article number184
JournalEuropean Physical Journal A
Volume59
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023

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© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.

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  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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