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Screening in two-dimensional gauge theories

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2012-12-05 v1

Abstract

We analyze the problem of screening in 1+1 dimensional gauge theories. Using QED2 as a warm-up for the non-abelian models we show the mechanism of the string breaking, in particular the vanishing overlap of the Wilson loops to the broken-string ground state that has been conjectured in higher-dimensional analyses. We attempt to extend our analysis to non-integer charges in the quenched and unquenched cases, in pursuit of the numerical check of a renowned result for the string tension between arbitrarily-charged fermions in the massive Schwinger model.

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@article{arxiv.1212.0569,
  title  = {Screening in two-dimensional gauge theories},
  author = {Piotr Korcyl and Mateusz Koren},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.0569},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

7 pages, 4 figures, proceedings of the XXX International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, Cairns, Australia

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