Surface states and chiral symmetry on the lattice
High Energy Physics - Lattice
2009-10-22 v1
Abstract
In a Hamiltonian formalism we study chiral symmetry for lattice Fermions formulated in terms of Shockley surface states bound to a wall in an extra spatial dimension. For hadronic physics this provides a natural scheme for taking quark masses to zero without requiring a precise tuning of parameters. We illustrate the chiral anomaly as a flow of states in this extra dimension. We discuss two alternatives for extending the picture to a chiral coupling of gauge fields to such Fermions; one with a small explicit breaking of gauge symmetry and one one with heavy mirror Fermions.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9402013,
title = {Surface states and chiral symmetry on the lattice},
author = {Michael Creutz and Ivan Horvath},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9402013},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
25 pages, BNL-60062