• DOI:10.1103/PHYSREV.130.439
Corpus ID: 121318840

Plasmons, Gauge Invariance, and Mass

@article{Anderson1963PlasmonsGI,
  title={Plasmons, Gauge Invariance, and Mass},
  author={P. Anderson},
  journal={Physical Review},
  year={1963},
  volume={130},
  pages={439-442}
}

• P. Anderson
• Published 1963
• Physics
• Physical Review

Schwinger has pointed out that the Yang-Mills vector boson implied by associating a generalized gauge transformation with a conservation law (of baryonic charge, for instance) does not necessarily have zero mass, if a certain criterion on the vacuum fluctuations of the generalized current is satisfied. It is shown here that the theory of plasma oscillations is a simple nonrelativistic example exhibiting all of the features of Schwinger's idea. It is also shown that Schwinger's criterion that… Expand

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