Phase structure of a 3D nonlocal U(1) gauge theory: deconfinement by gapless matter fields

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2005.10.019zbMATH Open1192.81245arXivcond-mat/0506529OpenAlexW2129075808MaRDI QIDQ877309FDOQ877309

Authors: Gaku Arakawa, Ikuo Ichinose, Tetsuo Matsui, Kazuhiko Sakakibara, Shunsuke Takashima 

Publication date: 20 April 2007

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

Abstract: In this paper, we study a 3D compact U(1) lattice gauge theory with a variety of nonlocal interactions that simulates the effects of gapless/gapful matter fields. This theory is quite important to investigate the phase structures of QED${}_3$ and strongly-correlated electron systems like the 2D quantum spin models, the fractional quantum Hall effect, the t-J model of high-temperature superconductivity. We restrict the nonlocal interactions among gauge variables only to those along the temporal direction and adjust their coupling constants optimally to simulate the isotropic nonlocal couplings of the original models. We perform numerical studies of the model to find that, for a certain class of power-decaying couplings, there appears a second-order phase transition to the deconfinement phase as the gauge coupling constant is decreased. On the other hand, for the exponentially-decaying coupling, there are no signals for second-order phase transition. These results indicate the possibility that introduction of sufficient number of massless matter fields destabilizes the permanent confinement in the 3D compact U(1) pure gauge theory due to instantons.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0506529

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

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