Finite temperature induced fermion number
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-06-26 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
The induced fractional fermion number at zero temperature is topological (in the sense that it is only sensitive to global asymptotic properties of the background field), and is a sharp observable (in the sense that it has vanishing rms fluctuations). In contrast, at finite temperature, it is shown to be generically nontopological, and not a sharp observable.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0112030,
title = {Finite temperature induced fermion number},
author = {Gerald V. Dunne},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0112030},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
6 pp, 2 figs; based on talks at Workshop on Lattice Hadron Physics (Cairns, July 2001), Workshop on Light-Cone: Particles and Strings (Trento, September 2001), and Workshop on Quantum Field Theory in External Conditions (Leipzig, September 2001)