A quantum mechanical gauge model and a possible dynamical solution of the strong CP problem

DOI10.1006/APHY.1996.0097MaRDI QIDQ1383718zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jürgen Löffelholz, G. Morchio, Franco Strocchi

Publication date 26 April 1998

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9501118

zbMATH Keywords

functional integral representationgauge quantum field theoriesmassive Schwinger modelstrong CP problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of functional analysis in quantum physics (46N50) Feynman integrals and graphs; applications of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry (81Q30) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Abstract: The QED(0+1) model describing a quantum mechanical particle on a circle with minimal electromagnetic interaction and with a potential -M cos(phi - theta_M), which mimics the massive Schwinger model, is discussed as a prototype of mechanisms and infrared structures of gauge quantum field theories in positive gauges. The functional integral representation displays a complex measure, with a crucial role of the boundary conditions, and the decomposition into theta sectors takes place already in finite volume. In the infinite volume limit, the standard results are reproduced for M=0 (massless fermions), but one meets substantial differences for M not = 0: for generic boundary conditions, independently of the lagrangean angle of the topological term, the infinite volume limit selects the sector with theta = theta_M, and provides a natural "dynamical" solution of the strong CP problem. In comparison with previous approaches, the strategy discussed here allows to exploit the consequences of the theta-dependence of the free energy density, with a unique minimum at theta = theta_M.

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