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MP: Fachverband Theoretische und Mathematische Grundlagen der Physik

MP 9: Anomalies in Quantum Field Theory

MP 9.2: Vortrag

Mittwoch, 1. September 2021, 14:25–14:50, H7

Exploring anomalies by many-body correlations — •Klaus Morawetz — Münster University of Applied Sciences, Stegerwaldstrasse 39, 48565 Steinfurt, Germany — International Institute of Physics - UFRN, Campus Universitário Lagoa nova, 59078-970 Natal, Brazil

The quantum anomaly can be written alternatively into a form violating conservation laws or as non-gauge invariant currents seen explicitly on the example of chiral anomaly. By reinterpreting the many-body averaging, the connection to Pauli-Villars regularization is established which gives the anomalous term a new interpretation as arising from quantum fluctuations by many-body correlations at short distances. This is exemplified by using an effective many-body quantum potential which realizes quantum Slater sums by classical calculations. It is shown that these quantum potentials avoid the quantum anomaly but approaches the same anomalous result by many-body correlations. A measure for the quality of quantum potentials is suggested to describe these quantum fluctuations in the mean energy. Consequently quantum anomalies might be a short-cut way of single-particle field theory to account for many-body effects. This conjecture is also supported since the chiral anomaly can be derived by a completely conserving quantum kinetic theory. [Eur. Phys. J. B 92 (2019) 176, Phys. Lett. A 383 (2019) 1362, arXiv:2004.01507]