The Phases of Non-Compact QED(3)
High Energy Physics - Lattice
2008-11-26 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons
Superconductivity
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
Non-compact three-dimensional QED is studied by computer simulations to understand its chiral symmetry breaking features for different values of the number of fermion flavors N_f. We consider the four-component formulation for the fermion fields, which arises naturally as the continuum limit of the staggered fermion construction in (2+1) dimensions. We present preliminary results for the equation of state of the theory in an effort to understand the properties of the chiral phase transition of the theory at a critical number of fermion flavors N_{fc}. Our preliminary results indicate that N_{fc}~1.5.
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@article{arxiv.0804.0300,
title = {The Phases of Non-Compact QED(3)},
author = {Costas Strouthos and John B. Kogut},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.0300},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
7 pages, Presented at the XXV International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, Regensburg, Germany