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Variational Approach to Yang--Mills Theory with non-Gaussian Wave Functionals

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-05-20 v1

Abstract

A general method for treating non-Gaussian wave functionals in quantum field theory is presented and applied to the Hamiltonian approach to Yang-Mills theory in Coulomb gauge in order to include a three-gluon kernel in the exponential of the vacuum wave functional. The three-gluon vertex is calculated using the propagators found in the variational approach with a Gaussian trial wave functional as input.

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@article{arxiv.1011.4798,
  title  = {Variational Approach to Yang--Mills Theory with non-Gaussian Wave Functionals},
  author = {Davide R. Campagnari and Hugo Reinhardt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.4798},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

3 pages, 4 figures, talk presented at "Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum IX", Madrid, August 30-September 3, 2010, to appear in the proceedings

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