17: Scalar Quantum Electrodynamics

The following sections are included:

• Action and Generating Functional

• Meissner-Ochsenfeld-Higgs Effect

• Spatially Varying Ground States

• Two Natural Length Scales

• Planar Domain Wall

• Surface Energy

• Single Vortex Line and Critical Field H_c1

• Critical Field H_c2 where Superconductivity is Destroyed

• Order of Superconductive Phase Transition

• Quartic Interaction and Tricritical Point

• Four-Dimensional Version

• Spontaneous Mass Generation in a Massless Theory

• Notes and References