Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2008-06-20
Phys.Rev.C78:055201,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
8 pages, 3 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.78.055201
We establish that QED3 can possess a critical number of flavours, N_f^c, associated with dynamical chiral symmetry breaking if, and only if, the fermion wave function renormalisation and photon vacuum polarisation are homogeneous functions at infrared momenta when the fermion mass function vanishes. The Ward identity entails that the fermion-photon vertex possesses the same property and ensures a simple relationship between the homogeneity degrees of each of these functions. Simple models for the photon vacuum polarisation and fermion-photon vertex are used to illustrate these observations. The existence and value of N_f^c are contingent upon the precise form of the vertex but any discussion of gauge dependence is moot. We introduce an order parameter for confinement. Chiral symmetry restoration and deconfinement are coincident owing to an abrupt change in the analytic properties of the fermion propagator when a nonzero scalar self-energy becomes insupportable.
Bashir Adnan
Cloët Ian C.
Raya Alfredo
Roberts Christopher D.
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