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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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@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}
}

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25 pages, BNL-60062