Consequences of Dirac's theory of positrons

By W. Heisenberg, H. Euler. 2006

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Inverse magnetic catalysis and the Polyakov loop (2013, methodology): “This technique has been used in the classical papers [56, 57], for a review see e.”
Magnetically charged black holes from non-linear electrodynamics and the Event Horizon Telescope (2019, neutral): “int charged particle. One particularly relevant example in this sense is Euler-Heisenberg (EH) NLED, whose action is given by the eective action of QED after taking into account one-loop corrections [119], and which sees the appearance of two relativistic invariants constructed out of the electromag”
Introductory Notes on Non‐linear Electrodynamics and its Applications (2021, background): “Notable examples are the famous Born-Infeld theory [1], which was invented to ensure that electric field self-energy of charged point particles is finite but much later turned out to be an important ingredient of String Theory, and the Heisenberg-Euler effective theory of quantum electrodynamics [2]”
Worldline instantons and the fluctuation prefactor (2006, background): “The nonperturbative phenomenon of vacuum pair production [19, 20] has applications in many fields of physics [21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27].”