Confinement, chiral symmetry breaking and continuum limits in quantum link models

DOI10.1016/S0920-5632(99)85189-5MaRDI QIDQ5961372zbMATHFDO

Authors Shailesh Chandrasekharan

Publication date 24 April 2002

Published in Nuclear Physics. B. Proceedings Supplements (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/9809084

zbMATH Keywords

phase diagramcompact U(1) lattice gauge theoryelectric flux quantum cut-off

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

Abstract: Using the example of compact U(1) lattice gauge theory we argue that quantum link models can be used to reproduce the physics of conventional Hamiltonian lattice gauge theories. In addition to the usual gauge coupling $g$, these models have a new parameter $j$ which naturally cuts-off large electric flux quanta on each link while preserving exact U(1) gauge invariance. The $joinfty$ limit recovers the conventional Hamiltonian. At strong couplings, the theory shows confinement and chiral symmetry breaking for all non-trivial values of $j$. The phase diagram of the 3+1 dimensional theory suggests that a coulomb phase is present at large but finite $j$. Setting $g=0$, a new approach to the physics of compact U(1) gauge theory on the lattice emerges. In this case the parameter $j$ takes over the role of the gauge coupling, and $joinfty$ describes free photons.

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