Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
2001-12-06
Phys.Rev. D65 (2002) 054015
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
39 pages revtex, 12 figures postscript, accepted for publication in Physical Review D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.65.054015
By adding a small, irrelevant four fermi interaction to the action of noncompact lattice Quantum Electrodynamics (QED), the theory can be simulated with massless quarks in a vacuum free of lattice monopoles. The lattice theory possesses a second order chiral phase transition which we show is logarithmically trivial, with the same systematics as the Nambu-Jona Lasinio model. The irrelevance of the four fermi coupling is established numerically. The widths of the scaling windows are examined in both the coupling constant and bare fermion mass directions in parameter space. For vanishing fermion mass we find a broad scaling window in coupling. By adding a small bare fermion mass to the action we find that the width of the scaling window in the fermion mass direction is very narrow. Only when a subdominant scaling term is added to the leading term of the equation of state are adequate fits to the data possible. The failure of past studies of lattice QED to produce equation of state fits with adequate confidence levels to seriously address the question of triviality is explained. The vacuum state of the lattice model is probed for topological excitations, such as lattice Monopoles and Dirac strings, and these objects are shown to be non-critical along the chiral transition line as long as the four fermi coupling is nonzero.
Kim Seongcheol
Kogut John B.
Lombardo Maria Paola
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