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We describe how the choice of an appropriate (“physical”) gauge leads to the solution of a nonperturbative problem in quantum electrodynamics: dynamical chiral symmetry breaking in QED in a constant magnetic field.
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Gusynin, V.P., Miransky, V.A. & Shovkovy, I.A. Physical Gauge in the Problem of Dynamical Chiral Symmetry Breaking in QED in a Magnetic Field. Foundations of Physics 30, 349–357 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1003605404461
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