Quantum link models: A discrete approach to gauge theories

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)80041-7zbMATH Open0937.81050arXivhep-lat/9609042OpenAlexW2090564176MaRDI QIDQ678307FDOQ678307

Shailesh Chandrasekharan, U.-J. Wiese

Publication date: 16 April 1997

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct lattice gauge theories in which the elements of the link matrices are represented by non-commuting operators acting in a Hilbert space. These quantum link models are related to ordinary lattice gauge theories in the same way as quantum spin models are related to ordinary classical spin systems. Here U(1) and SU(2) quantum link models are constructed explicitly. As Hamiltonian theories quantum link models are nonrelativistic gauge theories with potential applications in condensed matter physics. When formulated with a fifth Euclidean dimension, universality arguments suggest that dimensional reduction to four dimensions occurs. Hence, quantum link models are also reformulations of ordinary quantum field theories and are applicable to particle physics, for example to QCD. The configuration space of quantum link models is discrete and hence their numerical treatment should be simpler than that of ordinary lattice gauge theories with a continuous configuration space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/9609042

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zbMATH Keywords

Hilbert spacequantum field theoriesnoncommuting operatorsclassical spin systemsfifth Euclidean dimensionHamiltonian theoriesnonrelativistic gauge theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

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