Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1992-07-24
Phys.Rev. D47 (1993) 3530-3542
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
30 pages, UFIFT-HEP-92-19
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.47.3530
Staggered fermions are constructed for the transverse lattice regularization scheme. The weak perturbation theory of transverse lattice non-compact QED is developed in light-cone gauge, and we argue that for fixed lattice spacing this theory is ultraviolet finite, order by order in perturbation theory. However, by calculating the anomalous scaling dimension of the link fields, we find that the interaction Hamiltonian becomes non-renormalizable for $g^2(a) > 4\pi$, where $g(a)$ is the bare (lattice) QED coupling constant. We conjecture that this is the critical point of the chiral symmetry breaking phase transition in QED. Non-perturbative chiral symmetry breaking is then studied in the strong coupling limit. The discrete remnant of chiral symmetry that remains on the lattice is spontaneously broken, and the ground state to lowest order in the strong coupling expansion corresponds to the classical ground state of the two-dimensional spin one-half Heisenberg antiferromagnet.
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