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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 86, Issue 9, Pages 1690-1693Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.1690
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We show that while the zero temperature induced fermion number in a chiral sigma model background depends only on the asymptotic values of the chiral field, at finite temperature the induced fermion number depends also on the detailed shape of the chiral background. We resum the leading low temperature terms to all orders in the derivative expansion, producing a simple result that can be interpreted physically as the different effect of the chiral background on virtual pairs of the Dirac sea and on the real particles of the thermal plasma. By contrast, for a kink background, not of sigma model form, the finite T induced fermion number is temperature dependent but topological.
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