Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
1997-10-18
Phys.Rev. D57 (1998) 5070-5083
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
24 pages, Latex, no figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.57.5070
We revisit the strong coupling limit of the Schwinger model on the lattice using staggered fermions and the hamiltonian approach to lattice gauge theories. Although staggered fermions have no continuous chiral symmetry, they posses a discrete axial invari ance which forbids fermion mass and which must be broken in order for the lattice Schwinger model to exhibit the features of the spectrum of the continuum theory. We show that this discrete symmetry is indeed broken spontaneously in the strong coupling li mit. Expanding around a gauge invariant ground state and carefully considering the normal ordering of the charge operator, we derive an improved strong coupling expansion and compute the masses of the low lying bosonic excitations as well as the chiral co ndensate of the model. We find very good agreement between our lattice calculations and known continuum values for these quantities already in the fourth order of strong coupling perturbation theory. We also find the exact ground state of the antiferromag netic Ising spin chain with long range Coulomb interaction, which determines the nature of the ground state in the strong coupling limit.
Berruto Federico
Grignani Gianluca
Semenoff Gordon W.
Sodano Pasquale
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