Published October 15, 1988
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Journal article
QED on a circle
Creators
- 1. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
Description
QED with massless fermions on a circle (0≤x<L) is exactly solved. The nonintegrable phase exp[ie ∫0/sup L/dx A1(t,x)], which is a dynamical degree of freedom on a circle, couples through the anomaly to the zero mode of the fermion-antifermion bound states, leading to the θ vacuum
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review, D
- Journal Volume
- 38
- Journal Issue
- 8
- Series
- Phys. Rev., D.
- Journal Page Range
- 2621-2624
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 20004858
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ANALYTICAL SOLUTION; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CIRCULAR CONFIGURATION; FERMIONS; LAGRANGIAN FIELD THEORY; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS
- Descriptors DEC
- CONFIGURATION; ELECTRODYNAMICS; FIELD THEORIES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY