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Effects of Anisotropy in (2+1)-dimensional QED

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-03 v1 Superconductivity

Abstract

We summarize our results for the impact of anisotropic fermionic velocities in (2+1)-dimensional QED on the critical number of fermion flavors, N^c_f, and dynamical mass generation. We apply different approximation schemes for the gauge boson vacuum polarization and the fermion-boson vertex to analyze the according Dyson-Schwinger equations in a finite volume. Our results point towards large variations of N^c_f away from the isotropic point in agreement with other approaches.

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@article{arxiv.1111.0182,
  title  = {Effects of Anisotropy in (2+1)-dimensional QED},
  author = {J. A. Bonnet and C. S. Fischer and R. Williams},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.0182},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

7 pages, 4 figures, contribution to the proceedings of the International School of Nuclear Physics, Erice 2011