On the Analogy Between Chiral Symmetry Breakdown and Superconductivity

Lane, Kenneth D.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.10.1353

On the Analogy Between Chiral Symmetry Breakdown and Superconductivity

Kenneth D. Lane
(
- UC, Berkeley
)

May, 1974

9 pages

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Phys.Rev.D 10 (1974) 1353

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevD.10.1353

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Print-74-0952 (UC,BERKELEY)

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Fermion masses resulting from dynamical breakdown of chiral symmetry in a renormalizable field theory are shown to have an essential singularity at vanishing coupling constant, just as does the energy gap in a superconductor.

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