Scalar electrodynamics

Scalar electrodynamics

In theoretical physics, scalar electrodynamics is a theory of a U(1) gauge field coupled to a charged spin 0 scalar field that takes the place of the Dirac fermions in "ordinary" quantum electrodynamics. The scalar field is charged, and with an appropriate potential, it has the capacity to break the gauge symmetry via the Abelian Higgs mechanism.

Superconductivity can be interpreted as a nonrelativistic version of scalar electrodynamics.

ee also

*Quantum electrodynamics


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