Possibility of a dynamical Higgs mechanism and of the respective phase transition induced by a boundary
Possibility of a dynamical Higgs mechanism and of the respective phase transition induced by a boundary
The dynamical quantum effects arising due to the boundary presence with two types of boundary conditions (BC's) satisfied by scalar fields are studied. It is shown that while the Neumann BC's lead to the usual scalar field mass generation, the Dirichlet BC's give rise to the dynamical mechanism of spontaneous …