For QED in 2+1 dimensions with many fermion flavors, the thermal pressure to next-to-leading order in 1/Nf is computed across all couplings, giving a curve bounded by the free-fermion and free-photon pressures.
Title resolution pending
1 Pith paper cite this work. Polarity classification is still indexing.
1
Pith paper citing it
abstract
Non-compact three-dimensional QED is studied by computer simulations to understand its chiral symmetry breaking features for N_f>=2, on lattice volumes up to 50^3 and bare masses as low as ma=0.0000625. We compute the chiral condensate, scalar and pseudoscalar susceptibilities, and the masses of scalar and pseudoscalar mesons. Finite volume effects and discretisation artifacts are carefully monitored. Our results reveal no decisive signal for chiral symmetry breaking for any N_f>=2. For N_f=2 the dimensionless condensate can be bounded by beta^2<psibarpsi> <= 5x10^-5. We also present an exploratory study of the fractionally-charged Polyakov line.
citation-role summary
background 1
citation-polarity summary
fields
hep-th 1years
2019 1verdicts
CONDITIONAL 1roles
background 1polarities
background 1representative citing papers
citing papers explorer
-
Thermal free energy of large Nf QED in 2+1 dimensions from weak to strong coupling
For QED in 2+1 dimensions with many fermion flavors, the thermal pressure to next-to-leading order in 1/Nf is computed across all couplings, giving a curve bounded by the free-fermion and free-photon pressures.