Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1994-02-10
Phys.Rev.D49:6836-6848,1994
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
TPI-MINN-94/6-T. 37 p., 3 fig. Fig.3 and discussion around it are rectified. Bibliography updated
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.49.6836
We show that $QCD_2$ with adjoint fermions involves instantons due to nontrivial $\pi_1[SU(N)/Z_N]~=~Z_N$. At high temperatures, quasiclassical approximation works and the action and the form of effective (with account of quantum corrections) instanton solution can be evaluated. Instanton presents a localized configuration with the size $\propto g^{-1}$. At $N=2$, it involves exactly 2 zero fermion modes and gives rise to fermion condensate $<\bar{\lambda}^a \lambda^a>_T$ which falls off $\propto \exp\{-\pi^{3/2} T/g\}$ at high $T$ but remains finite. At low temperatures, both instanton and bosonization arguments also exhibit the appearance of fermion condensate $<\bar{\lambda}^a \lambda^a>_{T=0} ~\sim ~g$. For $N>2$, the situation is paradoxical. There are $2(N-1)$ fermion zero modes in the instanton background which implies the absence of the condensate in the massless limit. From the other hand, bosonization arguments suggest the appearance of the condensate for any $N$. Possible ways to resolve this paradox (which occurs also in some 4-dim gauge theories) are discussed.
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