Non-perturbative treatment of strongly-interacting fields: Insights from liquid theory

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2014.04.025zbMATH Open1342.81704arXiv1311.3434OpenAlexW2127521817MaRDI QIDQ530801FDOQ530801

Authors: V. V. Brazhkin, Kostya Trachenko 

Publication date: 1 August 2016

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

Abstract: We outline a new programme of solving the problem of treating strong interactions in field theories. The programme does not involve perturbation theories and associated problems of divergences. We apply our recent idea of treating strongly interacting liquids to field theories by showing the equivalence of Hamiltonians of liquids and interacting fields. In this approach, the motion of the field results in the disappearance of $n-1$ transverse modes with frequency smaller than the Frenkel frequency $omeg{a}_{mF}$, similar to the loss of two transverse modes in a liquid with frequency $omega<omeg{a}_{mF}$. We illustrate the proposed programme with the calculation of the energy and propagator, and show that the results can not be obtained in perturbation theory to any finite order. Importantly, the Frenkel energy gap $E_{mF}=hbaromeg{a}_{mF}$ and the associated massive Frenkel particle naturally appear in our consideration, the result that is relevant for current efforts to demonstrate a mass gap in interacting field theories such as Yang-Mills theory. Notably, our mechanism involves a physically sensible starting point in terms of real masses (frequencies) in the harmonic non-interacting field, in contrast to the Higgs effect involving the imaginary mass as a starting point. We further note that the longitudinal mode in our approach remains gapless, implying that both short-range and long-range forces with massive and massless particles naturally emerge and unify in a single interacting field, a result not hitherto anticipated. Finally, we comment on the relationship between our results and hydrodynamic description of the quark-gluon plasma.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.3434

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zbMATH Keywords

mass gapnon-perturbative treatment of interactionsstrongly-interacting field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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