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Vacuum polarization
In quantum field theory, vacuum polarization describes a process in which an electromagnetic field produces virtual electron-positron pairs that change the distribution of charges and currents that generated the original electromagnetic field. It is also sometimes referred to as the self energy of the gauge boson.
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