1. CRITICAL BEHAVIOR IN (2+1)-DIMENSIONAL QED WITH A FOUR-FERMION INTERACTION
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Jae Sik Lee, Jae Kwan Kim, and Won-Ho Kye
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Condensed matter physics ,Plane (geometry) ,High Energy Physics::Lattice ,One-dimensional space ,Order (ring theory) ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Fermion ,Type (model theory) ,Coupling (probability) ,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics ,Critical line ,Chiral symmetry breaking ,Mathematical physics - Abstract
We analyze QED3 with a scalar-scalar type four-fermion interaction in the framework of 1/N expansion. We have derived the Dyson-Schwinger gap equation up to the next-to-leading order and determined the dynamically generated fermion mass as a function of the number of fermion flavors N and a scaled coupling θ. We observe that the critical behaviors are separated by the point [Formula: see text] and, contrary to the leading behaviors, there are mass generations even when θ ≥ θc with the critical flavor Nc. The critical line on the Nc−θc plane is presented. We also discuss the vacuum stability of our model, and confirm that our nontrivial solutions are energetically preferred to the perturbative solution Σ(p)=0.
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- 1995
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