Gauge invariance, correlated fermions, and photon mass in 2+1 dimensions

DOI10.1007/S10955-013-0912-8zbMATH Open1291.82035arXiv1107.0891OpenAlexW1979501400MaRDI QIDQ2016553FDOQ2016553

Jonas de Woul, Edwin Langmann

Publication date: 20 June 2014

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a 2+1 dimensional quantum gauge theory with correlated fermions that is exactly solvable by bosonization. This model describes a system of Luttinger liquids propagating on two sets of equidistant lines forming a grid embedded in two dimensional continuum space; this system has two dimensional character due to density-density interactions and due to a coupling to dynamical photons propagating in the continuous embedding space. We argue that this model gives an effective description of partially gapped fermions on a square lattice that have density-density interactions and are coupled to photons. Our results include the following: after non-trivial renormalizations of the coupling parameters, the model remains well-defined in the quantum field theory limit as the grid of lines becomes a continuum; the photons in this model are massive due to gauge-invariant normal-ordering, similarly as in the Schwinger model; the exact excitation spectrum of the model has two gapped and one gapless mode.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.0891

Recommendations

• Exact solution of a 2D interacting fermion model
• Lattice quantum electrodynamics for graphene
• A gauge invariant and string independent fermion correlator in the Schwinger model
• Partially gapped fermions in 2D
• VECTOR SCHWINGER MODEL WITH A PHOTON MASS TERM: GAUGE-INVARIANT REFORMULATION, OPERATOR SOLUTIONS AND HAMILTONIAN AND PATH INTEGRAL FORMULATIONS

zbMATH Keywords

bosonizationanomaliesquantum gauge theory(2+1)D exactly solvable modelcorrelated fermionsphoton mass generation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Exactly solvable models; Bethe ansatz (82B23)

Cites Work

• Constrained dynamics. With applications to Yang-Mills theory, general relativity, classical spin, dual string model
• Gauge Invariance and Mass
• Gauge Invariance and Mass. II
• A soluble relativistic field theory
• Off-diagonal long range order and superconductive electrodynamics
• Quantum Field Theory in Condensed Matter Physics
• Partially gapped fermions in 2D
• Plasmons, Gauge Invariance, and Mass
• The Luttinger-Schwinger model
• Exact solution of a 2D interacting fermion model
• A 2D Luttinger model
• A two-dimensional analogue of the Luttinger model
• Title not available (Why is that?)

Cited In (3)

• Correlation energy of a weakly interacting Fermi gas
• Gauge invariant photon mass induced by vortex gauge interactions
• A gauge invariant and string independent fermion correlator in the Schwinger model

This page was built for publication: Gauge invariance, correlated fermions, and photon mass in 2+1 dimensions

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2016553)