Yang-Mills gauge theories from simple fermionic lattice models

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2009.05.029zbMATH Open1231.81060arXiv0807.0826OpenAlexW1630244004MaRDI QIDQ662988FDOQ662988

Authors: P. Maraner, Jiannis K. Pachos 

Publication date: 13 February 2012

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A doublet of three-dimensional Dirac fermions can effectively describe the low energy spectrum of a fermionic cubic lattice. We employ this fermion doubling to encode a non-Abelian SU(2) charge in the fundamental representation. We explicitly demonstrate that suitable distortion of the tunnelling couplings can introduce a scalar and a Yang-Mills field in the effective low energy description, both coupled to the Dirac fermions. As an application we simulate Yang-Mills monopoles that give rise to localized zero-modes and fermion fractionalization. The generation of the non-Abelian field in the two-dimensional case is also presented.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.0826

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zbMATH Keywords

Yang-Millsfermionic lattices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25) Statistical mechanics of liquids (82D15)

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