Symmetry breaking in the Schrodinger representation for Chern-Simons theories

May, 1994
16 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 50 (1994) 5321-5328
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Report number:
  • UCONN-94-2

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Abstract:
This paper discusses the phenomenon of spontaneous symmetry breaking in the Schr\"odinger representation formulation of quantum field theory. The analysis is presented for three-dimensional space-time abelian gauge theories with either Maxwell, Maxwell-Chern-Simons, or pure Chern-Simons terms as the gauge field contribution to the action, each of which leads to a different form of mass generation for the gauge fields.
  • gauge field theory: U(1)
  • dimension: 3
  • Chern-Simons term
  • Higgs model
  • Hamiltonian formalism
  • Schroedinger equation
  • spontaneous symmetry breaking
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