Chiral symmetry breaking in a uniform external magnetic field

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 6504-6513

  Lee, D S ^a   Leung, C N ^b   Ng, Y J ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

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EID: 0000394738     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.55.6504     Document Type: Article

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