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We construct the path integral for one-dimensional non-linear sigma models, starting from a given Hamiltonian operator and states in a Hilbert space. By explicit evaluation of the discretized propagators and vertices we find the correct…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Jan de Boer , Bas Peeters , Kostas Skenderis , Peter van Nieuwenhuizen

We consider the massive relativistic particle models on fourdimensional Minkowski space extended by $N$ commuting Weyl spinors for N=1 and N=2. The N=1 model is invariant under the most general form of bosonic counterpart of simple D=4…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 S. Fedoruk , J. Lukierski

The "spin-up" and "spin-down" projections of the second order, chiral form of Dirac Theory are shown to fit a superposition of forms predicted in an earlier classical, complex scalar gauge theory (April, 1992 Class. Quantum Grav.). In some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-30 J. E. Rankin

We construct the frame-like gauge-invariant Lagrangian formulation for massive fermionic arbitrary spin fields in three-dimensional $AdS$ space. The Lagrangian and complete set of gauge transformations are obtained. We also develop the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 I. L. Buchbinder , T. V. Snegirev , Yu. M. Zinoviev

In this paper, we review a general technique for converting the standard Lagrangian description of a classical system into a formulation that puts time on an equal footing with the system's degrees of freedom. We show how the resulting…

General Physics · Physics 2023-07-28 Jacob A. Barandes

We investigate the rich quantum phase diagram of Wegner's theory of discrete Ising gauge fields interacting with $U(1)$ symmetric single-component fermion matter hopping on a two-dimensional square lattice. In particular limits the model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-20 Umberto Borla , Bhilahari Jeevanesan , Frank Pollmann , Sergej Moroz

In 2+1 dimensions, Dirac fermions in reducible, i.e. four-component representations of the spinor algebra form the basis of many interesting model field theories and effective descriptions of condensed matter phenomena. This paper explores…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-08-25 Simon Hands

We extend the recently developed kinematical framework for diffeomorphism invariant theories of connections for compact gauge groups to the case of a diffeomorphism invariant quantum field theory which includes besides connections also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Thomas Thiemann

We develop relativistic wave equations in the framework of the new non-hermitian ${\cal PT}$ quantum mechanics. The familiar Hermitian Dirac equation emerges as an exact result of imposing the Dirac algebra, the criteria of ${\cal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-02 Katherine Jones-Smith , Harsh Mathur

A generalization of the Lagrangian introduced earlier in [2011 {\it J. Phys. G} ${\bf 37}$ 105001] for a classical color spinning particle interacting with background non-Abelian gauge and fermion fields for purpose of considering a change…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-12-12 Yuri A. Markov , Margarita A. Markova , Alexey A. Shishmarev , Alexander N. Vall

A concise discussion of spin-1/2 field equations with a special focus on Majorana spinors is presented. The Majorana formalism which describes massive neutral fermions by the help of two-component or four-component spinors is of fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-28 Andreas Aste

A model is presented of the leptons, quarks and bosons as non-elementary particles being composed of spinons. They are defined as massless fermions obeying the Weyl equations, but in addition are charged and assumed to have two internal…

General Physics · Physics 2019-08-27 Eckart Marsch

Causal fermion systems are introduced as a general mathematical framework for formulating relativistic quantum theory. By specializing, we recover earlier notions like fermion systems in discrete space-time, the fermionic projector and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-06-17 Felix Finster , Andreas Grotz , Daniela Schiefeneder

Quantum fluctuations of the N\'eel state of the square lattice antiferromagnet are usually described by a $\mathbb{CP}^1$ theory of bosonic spinons coupled to a U(1) gauge field, and with a global SU(2) spin rotation symmetry. Such a theory…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-31 Alex Thomson , Subir Sachdev

A new formulation of quantum mechanics based on differential commutator brackets is developed. We have found a wave equation representing the fermionic particle. In this formalism, the continuity equation mixes the Klein-Gordon and…

General Physics · Physics 2012-03-21 Arbab I. Arbab , Faisal A. Yassein

Investigation of composite Higgs models (CHMs) is of importance in contemporary particle physics. In this article, we present lattice computations of the chimera baryon masses in $Sp(4)$ gauge theory with two and three Dirac flavours of…

Schr\"{o}dinger (Nature, v.169, 538 (1952)) noted that the complex matter field in the Klein-Gordon equation can be made real by a gauge transform, although charged fields are believed to require complex functions. Surprisingly, the result…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-21 A. Akhmeteli

There are exactly three finite subgroups of SU(2) that act irreducibly in the spin 1 representation, namely the binary tetrahedral, binary octahedral and binary icosahedral groups. In previous papers I have shown how the binary tetrahedral…

General Physics · Physics 2021-12-03 Robert A. Wilson

We construct an effective cosmological spin-foam model for a (2+1) dimensional spatially flat universe, discretized on a hypercubical lattice, containing both space- and time-like regions. Our starting point is the recently proposed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-17 Alexander F. Jercher , José Diogo Simão , Sebastian Steinhaus

We find a large class of quantum gauge models with massless fermions where the coupling to the gauge fields is not chirally symmetric and which nevertheless do not suffer from gauge anomalies. To be specific we study two dimensional Abelian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Harald Grosse , Edwin Langmann