Abstract
We have studied symmetry-breaking phenomena in scalar electrodynamics by evaluating the effective potential at one-loop order in the Schrödinger picture. Contributions to the effective potential by the Higgs particle and the transverse and longitudinal components of a photon are compared with other previous works, and they are found to be consistent.
- Received 23 October 1989
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.41.1209
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