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Dynamical Mass Generation in QED3 with Chern--Simons Term

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-04-15 v1

Abstract

In (2+1)-dimensional QED with a Chern-Simons term, we study dynamical breaking of chiral symmetry, using the Dyson--Schwinger equation for the fermions. There is a region in parameter space were dynamical chiral symmetry breaking occurs, just as in pure QED3 (without Chern--Simons term); outside this region, this chiral symmetry breaking solution does not exists. Our results, both numerically and analytically, show that the chiral phase transition is a discontinuous first-order transition.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9511339,
  title  = {Dynamical Mass Generation in QED3 with Chern--Simons Term},
  author = {P. Maris},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9511339},
  year   = {2011}
}

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12 pages with 5 figures, LaTeX with ptptex, wrapfig, and epsf; talk given at YKIS '95: From the Standard Model to Grand Unified Theories, August '95, Kyoto, Japan, to appear in the proceedings

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