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Chiral symmetry breaking in (2+1) dimensional QED

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

We study dynamical mass generation in QED in (2+1) dimensions using Hamiltonian lattice methods. We use staggered fermions, and perform simulations with explicit dynamical fermions in the chiral limit. We demonstrate that a recently developed method to reduce the fermion sign problem can successfully be applied to this problem. Our results are in agreement with both the strong coupling expansion and with Euclidean lattice simulations.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0209052,
  title  = {Chiral symmetry breaking in (2+1) dimensional QED},
  author = {Pieter Maris and Dean Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0209052},
  year   = {2009}
}

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3 pages, contribution to Lattice2002(chiral)