Beta function of three-dimensional QED
High Energy Physics - Lattice
2014-10-02 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons
Abstract
We have carried out a Schrodinger-functional calculation for the Abelian gauge theory with Nf=2 four-component fermions in three dimensions. We find no fixed point in the beta function, meaning that the theory is confining rather than conformal.
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@article{arxiv.1410.0118,
title = {Beta function of three-dimensional QED},
author = {Benjamin Svetitsky and Ohad Raviv and Yigal Shamir},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.0118},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
7 pages, 3 figures. Talk presented at the 32nd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2014), 23-28 June 2014, Columbia University, New York, NY