Screening in three-dimensional QED
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-30 v2
Abstract
We compute the quark-antiquark potential in three dimensional massive Quantum Electrodynamics. The result indicates that screening prevails for large quark masses, contrary to the classical expectations. The classical result is reproduced for small separation of the quarks.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9704176,
title = {Screening in three-dimensional QED},
author = {E. Abdalla and R. Banerjee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9704176},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
7 pages, one figure, latex file, version to appear in Physical Review Letters