About the chiral symmetry breaking in QED<Subscript>3</Subscript>

The problem of the chiral symmetry breaking in QED₃ is considered by solving the Schwinger–Dyson equation for the fermion propagator in the ladder approximation using the Landau gauge for the photon propagator. Within the framework of the indicated approximation, different simplifications that allow expressions for the fermion mass function to be retrieved in an explicit form are analyzed. The results obtained are compared with the data of numerical analysis. It appears that the neglect of higher Gegenbauer harmonics in the kernel of the initial integral equation for the fermion mass function influences the dynamic mass value and the asymptotics of the mass function only weakly. On the other hand, it is established that the conclusion about a complicated structure of the fermion vacuum of the massive phase is an artifact of linearization of the Schwinger–Dyson equation kernel: consideration of the kernel nonlinearity yields a simple massive phase structure of the fermion vacuum.     

Real-Time Thermal Ward-Takahashi Identity for Vectorial Current in QED and QCD

It is shown that by means of canonical operator approach the Ward-Takahashi identity (WTI) at finite temperature T and finite chemical potential μ for complete vectorial vertex and complete fermion propagator can be simply proven, rigorously for Quantum Electrodynamics, and approximately for Quantum Chromodynamics, where the ghost effect in the fermion sector is neglected. The WTI shown in the real-time thermal matrix form will give definite thermal constraints on the imaginary part of inverse complete Feynman propagator including self-energy for fermion and will play an important role in relevant physical processes. When the above inverse propagator is assumed to be real, the thermal WTI will essentially be reduced to its form at T=μ=0 thus one can use it in the latter‘s form. At this point, a practical example is indicated.     

Fermion propagators on a four-dimensional random-block lattice

Fermion propagators, composite boson propagators and the fermion condensate are calculated numerically on the four-dimensional random-block lattice, respectively. The ensemble-averaged fermion propagator agrees with the continuum propagator for distances greater than three average lattice spacings. The results on the fermion condensate show that the chiral symmetry of the doubled modes is broken in the continuum limit. The Goldstone boson arising from the broken symmetry is revealed by examining the composite pseudo-scalar propagator. The doubled fermion and the Goldstone boson both acquire masses of the order of inverse lattice spacing and thus decouple from the theory in the continuum limit.     

The nonlocal chiral quark model and the muon <Emphasis Type="Italic">g</Emphasis> – 2 problem

In the first part of the review we discuss the effective nonlocal approach in the quantum field theory. It concerns primary the historical retrospective of this approach, and than we concentrate on the interaction of matter particles (fermions and bosons) with the (abelian and nonabelian) gauge fields. In the second part of the review we consider the hadronic corrections (vacuum polarization) to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon g - 2 factor discussed within the SU_f(2) nonlocal chiral quark model. This is considered in the leading and, partially, in the next-to-leading orders (the effect of the fermion propagator dressing due to pion field) of expansion in small parameter 1/N_c (N_c is the number of colors in QCD).     

Roles of the Color Antisymmetric Ghost Propagator in the Infrared QCD

The results of Coulomb gauge and Landau gauge lattice QCD simulation do not agree completely with continuum theory. There are indications that the ghost propagator in the infrared region has strong fluctuation whose modulus is compatible with that of the color diagonal ghost propagator. After presenting lattice simulation of configurations produced with Kogut–Susskind fermion (MILC collaboration) and those with domain wall fermion (RBC/UKQCD collaboration), I investigate in triple gluon vertex and the ghost–gluon–ghost vertex how the square of the color antisymmetric ghost contributes. Then the effect of the vertex correction to the gluon propagator and the ghost propagator is investigated. Recent Dyson–Schwinger equation analysis suggests the ghost dressing function G(0) = finite and no infrared enhancement or α _G  = 0. But the ghost propagator renormalized by the loop containing a product of color antisymmetric ghost is expected to behave as with with α _G = 0.5, if the fixed point scenario is valid. I interpret the α _G  = 0 solution should contain a vertex correction. The infrared exponent of our lattice Landau gauge gluon propagator of the RBC/UKQCD is α _D  = − 0.5 and that of MILC is about − 0.7. A possible interpretation of the origin of the fluctuation is given.     

Square-Root Operator Quantization and Nonlocality: A Review

A square-root-operator formalism is developed for quantum systems described with nonrelativistic and relativistic equations of motion. Spectral representation for Green's functions are designed for particles with spin 0, with the implication of its generalization to other spin values. Nonlocal operators suggest that a duality exists between physical particles and dual partners, which are tachyonic mathematical particles. It is shown that nonlocal operators result naturally from square-root operators, with the implication that microcausality holds only asymptotically. Applications help enlighten the formalism in order to envisage realistic situations with Schrödinger equations, Higgs fields, vacuum fluctuations, extra-dimensional methods in the potential theory, and electromagnetic interactions of extended charges and their consequences. It turns out that the innermost structure of these extended charges is associated with nonlocal photon propagators. It is shown that the propagator arisen from the charged torus potential consists of two different parts: a nonlocal photon propagator and a propagator of neutrino-like particles, which is described by square-root-operator equation. We examine the potential of the torus and its propagator as the appearance of superfields in terms of the photon and the massless fermion (photino).     

Effect of Fermion Velocity on Phase Structure of QED3

Dynamical chiral symmetry breaking (DCSB) in thermal QED₃ with fermion velocity is studied in the framework of Dyson-Schwinger equations. By adopting instantaneous approximation and neglecting the transverse component of gauge boson propagator at finite temperature, we numerically solve the fermion self-energy equation in the rainbow approximation. It is found that both DCSB and fermion chiral condensate are suppressed by fermion velocity. Moreover, the critical temperature decreases as fermion velocity increases.     

Instantons and the infrared behavior of the fermion propagator in the Schwinger model

The fermion propagator of the Schwinger model is revisited from the point of view of its infrared behavior. The values of the anomalous dimensions are found in arbitrary covariant gauge and in all contributing instanton sectors. In the case of a gauge invariant, but path dependent propagator, the exponential dependence, instead of a power law one, is established for the special case when the path is a straight line. The leading behavior is almost identical in any sector, differing only by the slowly varying, algebraic prefactors. The other kind of gauge invariant function, which is the amplitude of the dressed Dirac fermions, may be reduced, by an appropriate choice of the dressing, to the gauge variant one, if the Landau gauge is imposed. PACS  11.10.Kk; 11.15.-q     

Critical Number of Fermion Flavors at Finite Chemical Potential in QED3

We propose a new method for calculating the dressed fermion propagator at finite chemical potential in QED3 under the rainbow approximation of Dyson-Schwinger equation. In the above approximation, we show that the dressed fermion propagator at finite chemical potential # has the form S（p） = iγ.p^-A（p^-2） ＋ B（ p^-2） with p^-μ= （p^-1p3 ＋ iμ）. Using this form of fermion propagator at nonzero chemical potential, we investigate the Dyson-Schwinger equation for the dressed fermion propagator at finite chemical potential and study the effects of the chemical potential on the critical number of the fermion flavors.     

Long-distance behaviour of fermion propagators in the chiral Schwinger model

The chiral Schwinger model's fermionic sector is studied by comparing the fermion propagator of the original Jackiw-Rajaraman formulation with a propagator in the gauge invariant formulation. The main difference consists in the existence of fermionic single particle states in the original formulation, while there are no such states in the gauge invariant formulation. It is suggested that this difference is caused by renormalization, which changes the Hilbert space.     

Schwinger-Dyson equation for massless vector theory and the absence of a fermion pole

The Schwinger-Dyson equation of the fermion propagator in the massless vector theory is discussed. It is found that the Baker-Johnson-Willey solution in lowest approximation is in fact a confining solution: the Fermion propagator has no pole or cut in the time-like region. Discussions of homogeneous and inhomogeneous equations with momentum integration cut-off are also given in some detail.     

Infrared Features of Unquenched Lattice Landau Gauge QCD

The running coupling and the Kugo-Ojima parameter of unquenched lattice Landau gauge are simulated and compared with the continuum theory. Although the running coupling measured by the ghost and gluon dressing function is infrared suppressed, the running coupling has a maximum of α₀ ∼ 2 − 2.5 at around q = 0.5 GeV irrespective of the fermion actions (Wilson fermions and Kogut-Susskind (KS) fermions). The Kugo-Ojima parameter c which saturated to about 0.8 in quenched simulations becomes consistent with 1 in the MILC configurations produced with the use of the Asqtad action, after averaging the dependence on polarization directions caused by the asymmetry of the lattice. The presence of the correction factor 1 + c ₁/q ² in the running coupling depends on the lattice size and the sea quark mass. In the large lattice size and small sea quark mass, c ₁ is confirmed of the order of a few GeV. The MILC configuration of a = 0.09 fm suggests also the presence of dimension-4 condensates with a sign opposite to the dimension-2 condensates. The gluon propagator, the ghost propagator, and the running coupling are compared with recent pQCD results including an anomalous dimension of fields up to the four-loop level.     

Gauge Covariant Fermion Propagator in the Presence of Arbitrary External Gauge Field and Its Schwinger--Dyson Equation

Gauge covariance for Green＇s functions of a gauge theory through a fermion propagator in the presence of arbitrary external gauge field is proven and a formalism of gauge and Lorentz covariant Schwinger-Dyson equation for the fermion propagator with external gauge field is built up within ladder approximation.     

The radiation gauge static potential for non-abelian gauge fields

The static potential between a fermion and an anti-fermion in a group singlet state is calculated, through two loops, in the radiation gauge first order formalism. The results of this calculation imply that the Coulomb propagator is not sufficient to determine the static potential: a new function of the coupling constant α_s(?t) is also required.     

Random walk approximation in a chiral Yukawa-model and global symmetries

The fermion propagator is investigated in a chiral Yukawa-model with explicit mirror fermions applying the random walk approximation to the hopping parameter expansion. It is shown that the globalSU(2) _L ?SU(2) _R symmetry breaking due to the mass splitting within fermion doublets does influence the critical behaviour of the fermion spectrum in the continuum limit. In particular, in the case of a mirror pair of split doublets, whereSU(2) _L ⊕SU(2) _R is broken toSU(2) _L , no evidence is found for a dynamical spectrum doubling at infinitely strong bare Yukawa-couplings, in contrast to the case with degenerate doublets andSU(2) _L ?SU(2) _R symmetry.     

On the character of chiral symmetry breaking and fermion vacuum structure in QED<Subscript>3</Subscript>

Equation for the Bethe-Salpeter wave function of the Goldstone boson in QED₃ is considered in the ladder approximation with the use of the Landau gauge for the photon propagator. With the help of standard simplifications, the existence of nonzero solutions for this equation is demonstrated, which testifies to the production of the above-described boson in the process of chiral symmetry breaking. At the same time, it is demonstrated that only one of the entire set of solutions describing the Goldstone boson corresponds to the stable ground state; this solution has the greatest fermion mass. In the remaining cases, the compound boson state with zero mass is excited, and all other states having smaller energies appear tachyon states and hence are unstable. The fermion condensate is calculated; it is demonstrated that in the examined case, it is finite. Based on the foregoing, conclusions are drawn about spontaneous rather than dynamic character of chiral symmetry breaking in QED₃, complex structure of fermion vacuum for the examined model, and at the same time, simple structure of the massive phase vacuum.     

Vacuum Polarisation Effects in the Lorentz Violating Electrodynamics

In this work we reconsider the one loop calculation for the vacuum polarisation tensor in the Lorentz violating quantum electrodynamics. The electron propagator is “dressed” by a Lorentz breaking extra term in the fermion Lagrangian density. We check gauge invariance and use the Schwinger–Dyson equation to discuss the full photon propagator. After a discussion on a possible photon mass shift, we show how a finite quantum correction can be chosen in a unique way in order to ensure—in the spirit of spontaneously broken theories—the standard normalisation conditions for the vacuum polarisation tensor. Then we comment on possible observable physical consequences on the Lamb-shift.     

Electromagnetic dipole moments and radiative decays of particles from exchange of fermionic unparticles

We construct the propagator for a free fermionic unparticle field from basic considerations of scale and Lorentz invariance. The propagator is fixed up to a normalization factor which is required to recover the result of a free massless fermion field in the canonical limit of the scaling dimension. Two new features appear compared to the bosonic case. The propagator contains both γ and non-γ terms, and there is a relative phase of π/2 between the two in the time-like regime for arbitrary scaling dimension. This should result in additional interference effects on top of the one known in the bosonic case. The non-γ term can mediate chirality flipped transitions that are not suppressed by a light fermion mass but are enhanced by a large bosonic mass in loops, compared to the pure particle case. We employ this last feature to set stringent bounds on the Yukawa couplings between a fermionic unparticle and an ordinary fermion through electromagnetic dipole moments and radiative decays of light fermions.     

Propagator of the Lattice Domain Wall Fermion and the Staggered Fermion

We calculate the propagator of the domain wall fermion (DWF) of the RBC/UKQCD collaboration with 2 + 1 dynamical flavors of 16³ × 32 × 16 lattice in Coulomb gauge, by applying the conjugate gradient method. We find that the fluctuation of the propagator is small when the momenta are taken along the diagonal of the 4-dimensional lattice. Restricting momenta in this momentum region, which is called the cylinder cut, we compare the mass function and the running coupling of the quark-gluon coupling α _s,g1(q) with those of the staggered fermion of the MILC collaboration in Landau gauge. In the case of DWF, the ambiguity of the phase of the wave function is adjusted such that the overlap of the solution of the conjugate gradient method and the plane wave at the source becomes real. The quark-gluon coupling α _s,g1(q) of the DWF in the region q > 1.3 GeV agrees with ghost-gluon coupling α _s (q) that we measured by using the configuration of the MILC collaboration, i.e., enhancement by a factor (1 + c/q ²) with c ≃ 2.8 GeV² on the pQCD result. In the case of staggered fermion, in contrast to the ghost-gluon coupling α _s (q) in Landau gauge which showed infrared suppression, the quark-gluon coupling α _s,g1(q) in the infrared region increases monotonically as q→ 0. Above 2 GeV, the quark-gluon coupling α _s,g1(q) of staggered fermion calculated by naive crossing becomes smaller than that of DWF, probably due to the complex phase of the propagator which is not connected with the low energy physics of the fermion taste. An erratum to this article can be found at     

Causal structure of the thermal propagator in real-time formalisms

Within the path-integral approach and the thermal field dynamics we study thefull equilibrium fermion propagator. We clarify its representation in terms of the proper selfenergy. As an example we examine a fermion field coupled to an external gauge field.