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QED With Unequal Charges: A study of spontaneous Zn symmetry breaking

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study two-dimensional QED with unequal charges at finite temperature, and show that there is a phase with a spontaneously broken ZnZ_n symmetry. In spite of this, we were not able to establish the presence of domain walls. The relevance for QCD in higher dimensions is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9405324,
  title  = {QED With Unequal Charges: A study of spontaneous Zn symmetry breaking},
  author = {T. H. Hansson and H. B. Nielsen and I. Zahed},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9405324},
  year   = {2009}
}

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