Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 79, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.064513
Keywords
chirality; fermion systems; quantum electrodynamics; spontaneous symmetry breaking; wave functions
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We investigate the impact of finite-volume effects on the critical number of flavors, N-f(c), for chiral symmetry restoration in QED(3). To this end we solve a set of coupled Dyson-Schwinger equations on a torus. For order parameters such as the anomalous dimension of the fermion wave function or the chiral condensate, we find substantial evidence for a large dependence on the volume. We observe a shift in N-f(c) from values in the range of 3.61 <= N-f(c)<= 3.84 in the infinite-volume and continuum limit down to values below N-f <= 1.5 at finite volumes in agreement with earlier results of Gusynin and Reenders in a simpler truncation scheme. These findings explain discrepancies in N-f(c) between continuum and lattice studies.
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