Analytic approximations to hamiltonian lattice field theories: (I). Periodic gaussian model for U(1) theories |
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Authors: | Peter Suranyi |
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Institution: | Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45220, USA |
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Abstract: | Periodic gaussian models are introduced for local and global U(1) invariant hamiltonian lattice field theories. The models coincide with standard lattice theories at weak coupling, but the leading non-perturbative contributions to wave functions and physical quantities are exactly calculable. Electric charges are confined and the mass gap is finite if correlations of an integer-valued magnetic field are of infinite range (d = 2 + 1 gauge model). Otherwise, for short-range correlations, the mass gap and the string tension vanish at weak coupling (QED, XY model, etc.) |
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