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We present new results on chiral symmetry breaking in nearly conformal gauge theories with fermions in the fundamental representation of the SU(3) color gauge group. The number of fermion flavors is varied in an extended range below the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-11-05 Zoltan Fodor , Kieran Holland , Julius Kuti , Daniel Nogradi , Chris Schroeder

In the context of 2+1 dimensional Dirac materials, we consider electromagnetic interactions alongside a type of spin-dependent Hubbard interaction. The former is described by PQED theory, while the latter corresponds to an effective theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-17 Qiao Yang , Yu-Biao Wu , Wu-Ming Liu

The symmetry breaking pattern of QCD features two seemingly disconnected phenomena: the spontaneous breakdown of the Z(3) center symmetry in the deconfinement transition of pure-gauge QCD, and the spontaneous breaking of chiral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Wolfram Weise

We use the Schwinger-Dyson equations in the presence of a thermal bath, in order to study chiral symmetry breaking in a system of massless Dirac fermions interacting through pseudo quantum electrodynamics (PQED3), in (2+1) dimensions. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-06 Leandro O. Nascimento , Van Sérgio Alves , Francisco Peña , C. Morais Smith , E. C. Marino

Our recent works revisit the proof of chiral symmetry breaking in the confining phase of four-dimensional QCD-like theories, i.e. $SU(N_c)$ gauge theories with $N_f$ flavors of vectorlike quarks in the fundamental representation. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-05 Luca Ciambriello , Roberto Contino , Ling-Xiao Xu

We investigate the phase structure of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) in the vacuum as a function of quark flavor number $N_f$ within the chiral limit. By self-consistently solving the coupled DSEs for the quark and gluon propagators in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-19 Yi-huai Chen , Yi Lu , Zhi-wei Wang , Yu-xin Liu , Fei Gao

We establish that QED3 can possess a critical number of flavours, N_f^c, associated with dynamical chiral symmetry breaking if, and only if, the fermion wave function renormalisation and photon vacuum polarisation are homogeneous functions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-18 A. Bashir , A. Raya , I. C. Cloet , C. D. Roberts

In this paper, we present results of numerical lattice simulations of two-flavor QED in three space-time dimensions. First, we provide evidence that chiral symmetry is spontaneously broken in the chiral and continuum limit. Next we discuss…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Alexandre , K. Farakos , S. J. Hands , G. Koutsoumbas , S. E. Morrison

We present Monte Carlo simulation results for the three dimensional Thirring model on moderate sized lattices using a hybrid molecular dynamics algorithm which permits an odd or non-integer number Nf of fermion flavors. We find a continuous…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 Simon Hands , Biagio Lucini

In three-dimensional QED with a Chern--Simons term we study the phase structure associated with chiral-symmetry breaking in the framework of the Schwinger--Dyson equation. We give detailed analyses on the analytical and numerical solutions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-01 K. --I. Kondo , P. Maris

We present results of a Monte Carlo simulation of the three dimensional Thirring model with the number of fermion flavors N_f varied between 2 and 18. By identifying the lattice coupling at which the chiral condensate peaks, simulations are…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-09-22 Stavros Christofi , Simon Hands , Costas Strouthos

We study Quantum Electrodynamics in d=3 (QED_3) coupled to N_f flavors of fermions. The theory flows to an IR fixed point for N_f larger than some critical number N_f^c. For N_f<= N_f^c, chiral-symmetry breaking is believed to take place.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-06 Lorenzo Di Pietro , Zohar Komargodski , Itamar Shamir , Emmanuel Stamou

We review several variants of three-dimensional quantum electrodynamics (QED$_3$) with $N_f$ fermion (or boson) flavors including fermionic (or spinorial) QED$_3$, bosonic (or scalar) QED$_3$, $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric QED and also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-12 S. Metayer , S. Teber

We investigate QCD with a large number of massless flavors with the aid of renormalization group flow equations. We determine the critical number of flavors separating the phases with and without chiral symmetry breaking in SU(Nc) gauge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 Holger Gies , Joerg Jaeckel

We show that the strong coupling limit of d-dimensional quantum electrodynamics with $2^{d}/2^{[d/2]}$ flavors of fermions can be mapped onto the s=1/2 quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnet in d-1 space dimensions. The staggered N\'eel order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Gordon Semenoff

We consider massless three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric quantum electrodynamics (QED) with $N_f$ flavours of electrons. Within the dimensional reduction scheme, we compute the critical exponents corresponding to both the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-15 S. Metayer , S. Teber

We study the IR phase of three dimensional quantum electrodynamics (QED$_3$) coupled to $N_f=2$ flavors of two-component Dirac fermions, which has been controversial for decades. This theory has been proposed to be self-dual with symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-01 Zhijin Li

The enhancement of the fermionic condensate due to the presence of both homogeneous and non-homogeneous external magnetic fields is studied for three-dimensional QED.

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Farakos , G. Koutsoumbas , N. Mavromatos , A. Momen

The catalysis of chiral symmetry breaking in the massless weakly coupled QED in a magnetic field is studied. It is shown that the effect is due to the dimensional reduction $D\to D-2$ in the dynamics of fermion pairing in a magnetic field.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor A. Shovkovy

Dynamical symmetry breaking in three dimensional QED with $N$ flavors, which has been mostly analyzed by solving the Schwinger-Dyson equations, is investigated by means of the approximated Wilson, or non-perturbative, renormalization group…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Kubota , H. Terao