a Istituto di Fisica dell'Università di Roma, Italy
b INFN, Roma, Italy
c Istituto di Fisica della Facoltà di Ingegneria, Roma, Italy
d INFN, Frascati, Italy
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Abstract:
In this article we apply a previously proposed defermionization method to the study of two-dimensional QED (massive Schwinger model). We find good evidence for the spontaneous breaking of axial symmetry, i.e., in the massless limit.