Electromagnetic Self-Duality in a Lattice Model

Details Electromagnetic Self-Duality in a Lattice Model Electromagnetic Self-Duality in a Lattice Model

1995-09-21

arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/9509072v1

Nucl.Phys. B462 (1996) 291-314

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Lattice

29 pages plain TeX, 2 PostScript figures included using psfig

Scientific paper

10.1016/0550-3213(96)00027-2

We formulate a Euclidean lattice theory of interacting elementary spin-half electric and magnetic charges, which we refer to as electrons and magnetic monopoles respectively. The model uses the polymer representation of the fermion determinant, and exhibits a self-dual symmetry provided electric charge $e$ and magnetic charge $g$ obey the minimal Dirac quantisation condition $eg=2\pi$. In a hopping parameter expansion at lowest order, we show that virtual electron and monopole loops contribute radiative corrections of opposite sign to the photon propagator. We argue that in the limit $e\to0$, fermion mass $\mu\to0$, the model describes QED together with strongly interacting monopoles whose chiral symmetry is spontaneously broken. Prospects for the existence of an interacting continuum limit at the self-dual point $e=g$ are discussed.

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