Dirac's Observables for the Higgs Model I: The Abelian Case

DOI10.1142/S0217751X97002541MaRDI QIDQ4211966zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors P. Valtancoli, Luca Lusanna

Publication date 18 October 1998

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9606078

zbMATH Keywords

Higgs fieldDirac observablesvortex solution\(R\)-gauge-fixingAbelian Higgs model with fermions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Model quantum field theories (81T10)

Abstract: We search a canonical basis of Dirac's observables for the classical Abelian Higgs model with fermions in the case of a trivial U(1) principal bundle. The study of the Gauss law first class constraint shows that the model has two disjoint sectors of solutions associated with two physically different phases. In the electromagnetic phase, the electromagnetic field remains massless: after the determination of the Dirac's observables we get that both the reduced physical Hamiltonian and Lagrangian are nonlocal. In the Higgs phase, the electromagnetic field becomes massive and in terms of Dirac's observables we get a local, but nonanalytic in the electric charge (or equivalently in the sum of the electromagnetic mass and of the residual Higgs field), physical Hamiltonian; however the associated Lagrangian is nonlocal. Some comments on the R-gauge-fixing, the possible elimination of the residual Higgs field and on the Nielsen-Olesen vortex solution close the paper.

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