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Quantum Magnetic Collapse

M. Chaichian, S. S. Masood, C. Montonen, A. Perez Martinez, H. Perez Rojas

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9911218

Abstract

We study the thermodynamics of degenerate electron and charged vector boson gases in very intense magnetic fields. In degenerate conditions of the electron gas, the pressure transverse to the magnetic field B may vanish, leading to a transverse collapse. For W-bosons an instability arises because the magnetization diverges at the critical field Bc = MW2/e. If the magnetic field is self-consistently maintained, the maximum value it can take is of the order of 2Bc/3, but in any case the system becomes unstable and collapses.

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