Published September 1990 | Version v1
Journal article

QED in strong coupling: Some recent results

Creators

  • 1. California Univ., Santa Barbara (USA). Inst. for Theoretical Physics

Description

New results related with QED in strong coupling and its possible nontrivial fixed point are presented. In particular we obtain the phase diagram of QED in 4 dimensions in the plane (β, Nf): at β = 0 and Nf = 30 we found a chiral transition of first order while for small Nf the transition is continuous. QED3 is also discussed: we specially analyze the existence of a critical Nf below which chiral symmetry is broken. Finally, results for QED4 with Nf = 2 are presented showing the difficulties in extracting the asymptotic scaling behavior of the theory. (orig.)

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B, Proceedings Supplements
Journal Volume
17
Series
Nucl. Phys., B Proc. Suppl.
Journal Page Range
679-683
ISSN
0920-5632
CODEN
NPBSE

Conference

Title
Symposium on lattice field theory.
Dates
18-21 Sep 1989.
Place
Capri (Italy).

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
Grant PHY-87-01775; PHY-82-17853