Thursday, April 25, 2013

1304.6484 (Shan-quan Lan et al.)

Aspects of Electrodynamics Modified by Some Dimension-five Lorentz
Violating Interactions
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Shan-quan Lan, Feng Wu
Assuming Lorentz symmetry is broken by some fixed vector background as proposed in the Carroll-Field-Jackiw model, we study the spinor electrodynamics modified by two dimension-five Lorentz-violating interactions between fermions and photons. The effective polarization and magnetization are identified from the modified Maxwell equations and the theoretical consequences are investigated. We also compute the corrections to the relativistic energy levels of hydrogen atom induced by these Lorentz-violating operators in the absence and presence of uniform external fields in first-order perturbation theory. We find that the hydrogen spectrum is insensitive to the breakdown of Lorentz boost symmetry.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.6484

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