Magnetic-field Induced Screening Effect and Collective Excitations

Abstract

We explicitly construct the fermion propagator in a magnetic field background B to take the lowest Landau-level approximation. We analyze the energy and momentum dependence in the polarization tensor and discuss the collective excitations. We find there appear two branches of collective modes in one of two transverse gauge particles; one represents a massive and attenuated gauge particle and the other behaves similar to the zero sound at finite density.

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures; references on the zero sound added and typos corrected