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VEV's and condensates from the Schr\"odinger Wave-functional

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We show how VEV's and condensates can be read off from the Schr\"odinger wave-functional without further calculation. This allows us to study non-perturbative physics by solving the Schr\"odinger equation. To illustrate the method we calculate fermion condensates from the exact solution of the Schwinger model, and other (1+1) dimensional models. The chiral condensate is seen to be a large-distance effect due to propagators reflecting off the space-time boundary.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0206201,
  title  = {VEV's and condensates from the Schr\"odinger Wave-functional},
  author = {David Nolland},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0206201},
  year   = {2007}
}

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LaTeX, 9pp