Study of Compact {QED} With Light Fermions
Aug, 198715 pages
Published in:
- Nucl.Phys.B 295 (1988) 123-137
- Published: 1988
Report number:
- ILL-TH-87-45
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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We present a numerical study of compact QED including dynamical fermions of mass = 0.10 (lattice units) on a 6 4 lattice. Staggered lattice fermions and the Wilson action and mixed gauge actions were studied. The simulations used two modified hybrid methods: one with stochastic fields and the other with deterministic ones. Working with a variable number of flavors we found that the chiral transition which separates the strong and weak coupling phases is of first order in all cases. The strength of these discontinuous transitions increase with the number of flavors.- QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS
- FERMION: FLAVOR
- DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS: STOCHASTIC
- GAUGE FIELD THEORY: CRITICAL PHENOMENA
- LATTICE FIELD THEORY: ACTION
- LATTICE FIELD THEORY: CONTINUUM LIMIT
- SYMMETRY BREAKING: CHIRAL
- NUMERICAL CALCULATIONS: MONTE CARLO
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