Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1995-02-18
Phys.Lett.B350:92-102,1995
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
16 pages, latex, uses epsf.sty; replaced with latex src.
Scientific paper
10.1016/0370-2693(95)00310-H
QED with N species of massive fermions on a circle of circumference L is analyzed by bosonization. The problem is reduced to the quantum mechanics of the 2N fermionic and one gauge field zero modes on the circle, with nontrivial interactions induced by the chiral anomaly and fermions masses. The solution is given for N=2 and fermion masses (m) much smaller than the mass of the U(1) boson with mass \mu=\sqrt{2e^2/\pi} when all fermions satisfy the same boundary conditions. We show that the two limits m \go 0 and L \go \infty fail to commute and that the behavior of the theory critically depends on the value of mL|\cos\onehalf\theta| where \theta is the vacuum angle parameter. When the volume is large \mu L \gg 1, the fermion condensate <\psibar \psi> is -(e^{4\gamma} m\mu^2 \cos^4\onehalf\theta/4\pi^3)^{1/3} or $-2e^\gamma m\mu L \cos^2 \onehalf\theta /\pi^2 for mL(\mu L)^{1/2} |\cos\onehalf\theta| \gg 1 or \ll 1, respectively. Its correlation function decays algebraically with a critical exponent \eta=1 when m\cos\onehalf\theta=0.
Hetrick James E.
Hosotani Yutaka
Iso Satoshi
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