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We investigate a U(1) lattice chiral gauge theory with domain wall fermions and compact gauge fixing. In the reduced model limit, our perturbative and numerical investigations show that there exist no extra mirror chiral modes. The…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Basak , Asit K. De

Chiral symmetry breaking is imaged in graphene which, through a mechanism analogous to mass generation in quantum electrodynamics, could provide a means for making it semiconducting.

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-31 Christopher Mudry

We investigate a U(1) chiral gauge model in 4+1 dimensions formulated on the lattice via the domain-wall method. We calculate an effective action for smooth background gauge fields at a fermion one loop level. From this calculation we…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Aoki , H. Hirose

In the last century the non-perturbative regularization of chiral fermions was a long-standing problem. We review how this problem was finally overcome by the formulation of a modified but exact form of chiral symmetry on the lattice. This…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-09-28 Wolfgang Bietenholz

The Weyl fermion belonging to the real representation of the gauge group provides a simple illustrative example for L\"uscher's gauge-invariant lattice formulation of chiral gauge theories. We can explicitly construct the fermion…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 Hiroshi Suzuki

We examine the possibility of fermion mass generation in 2+1- dimensional gauge theory from the current algebra point of view.In our approach the critical behavior is governed by the fluctuations of pions which are the Goldstone bosons for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 M. C. Diamantini G. W. Semenoff P. Sodano

It is shown numerically, in a chiral U(1) gauge Higgs theory in which the left and right-handed fermion components have opposite U(1) charges, that the spectrum of gauge and Higgs fields surrounding a static fermion contains both a ground…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-09-08 Jeff Greensite

We show that gauge-transformation properties of correlation functions in chiral gauge theories on the finite lattice are determined in a general way.

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 Werner Kerler

The chiral fermion model with local multifermion interactions proposed in Nucl. Phys. B486 (1997) 282 and Phys. Rev. D61 (2000) 054502 processes an exact SU_L(2) chiral gauge symmetry and SU_L(2) by U_R(1) chiral flavour symmetry on a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 She-Sheng Xue

Motivated by the description of the graphene electronic structure in terms of the relativistic Dirac equation, a generalization to four dimensions yields a strictly local fermion action describing two species and possessing an exact chiral…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 Michael Creutz

A method for simulating chiral gauge theories on the lattice is proposed, involving zeromodes on a topological defect. Lattice doublers may be decoupled in a gauge invariant manner, and flavor anomalies can be directly observed on a finite…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-07-19 D. B. Kaplan

Folded graphene flakes are a natural byproduct of the micromechanical exfoliation process. In this Letter we show by a combination of analytical and numerical methods that such systems behave as intriguing interferometers due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-19 Diego Rainis , Fabio Taddei , Marco Polini , Gladys Leon , Francisco Guinea , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

We present a general formulation of chiral gauge theories, which admits Dirac operators with more general spectra, reveals considerably more possibilities for the structure of the chiral projections, and nevertheless allows appropriate…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 Werner Kerler

We review our efforts in investigating gauge theories with fermions in the adjoint representation of the gauge group by means of numerical simulations. These theories have applications in possible extensions of the Standard Model of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-12-23 Georg Bergner , Gernot Münster , Stefano Piemonte

We use a specific implementation of discrete differential geometry to describe Dirac-Kahler fermions in such a way that we can separate their chiral and flavour components. The formulation introduces additional lattices so that on each…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 Steven Watterson , J. Sexton

The model with the fermions coupled in the non - minimal way to the gauge theory of Lorentz group is considered. The lattice regularization is suggested. It is argued that this model may exist in the phase with broken chiral symmetry and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-08-16 M. A. Zubkov

We review the status of our recent work on the gauge-fixing approach to lattice chiral gauge theories. New numerical results in the reduced version of a model with a U(1) gauge symmetry are presented which strongly indicate that the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 Wolfgang Bock , Maarten F. L. Golterman , Yigal Shamir

Fermion-number fractionalization without breaking of time-reversal symmetry was recently demonstrated for a field theory in $(2+1)$-dimensional space and time that describes the couplings between massive Dirac fermions, a complex-valued…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-07 Claudio Chamon , Chang-Yu Hou , Roman Jackiw , Christopher Mudry , So-Young Pi , Gordon Semenoff

Theory of scattering of massive chiral fermions in bilayer graphene by radial symmetric potential is developed. It is shown that in the case when the electron wavelength is much larger than the radius of the potential the scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-02 M. I. Katsnelson

Mirror fermions appear naturally in lattice formulations of the standard model. The phenomenological limits on their existence and discovery limits at future colliders are discussed. After an introduction of lattice actions for chiral…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 Istvan Montvay