Essentially nonperturbative vacuum polarization effects in a two-dimensional Dirac-Coulomb system with Z > Zcr: vacuum charge densityстатья
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Аннотация:For a planar Dirac–Coulomb system with a supercritical axially symmetric Coulomb source with the charge Z>Z_{cr,1} and radius R_0, we consider essentially nonperturbative vacuum-polarization effects. Based on a special combination of analytic methods, computer algebra, and numerical calculations used in our previous papers to study analogous effects in the one-dimensional “hydrogen atom,” we study the behavior of both the vacuum density ρ_{VP}(r) and the total induced charge and also the vacuum-polarization energy E_{VP}. We mainly focus on divergences of the theory and the corresponding renormalization, on the convergence of partial series for ρ_{VP}(r) and E_{VP}, on the integer-valuedness of the total induced charge, and on the behavior of the vacuum energy in the overcritical region. In particular, we show that the renormalization via the fermion loop with two external legs turns out to be a universal method, which removes the divergence of the theory in the purely perturbative and essentially nonperturbative modes for ρ_{VP} and E_{VP}. The most important result is that for Z \geq Z_{cr,1} in such a system, the vacuum energy becomes a rapidly decreasing
function of the source charge Z, which reaches large negative values and whose behavior is estimated from below (in absolute value) as ∼ −|η_{eff} Z^3|/R_0. We also study the dependence of polarization effects on the cutoff of the Coulomb asymptotic form of the external field. We show that screening the asymptotic value significantly changes the structure and properties of the first partial channels with m_j = ±1/2, ±3/2. We consider the nonperturbative calculation technique and the behavior of the induced density and the integral induced charge QVP in the overcritical region in detail.