Jul 24 – 30, 2016
Highfield Campus, University of Southampton
Europe/London timezone

Absence of bilinear condensate in three-dimensional QED

Jul 27, 2016, 9:00 AM
20m
Building 67 Room 1003 (Highfield Campus, University of Southampton)

Building 67 Room 1003

Highfield Campus, University of Southampton

Talk Applications Beyond QCD Applications Beyond QCD

Speaker

Dr Nikhil Karthik (Florida International University)

Description

There are plausibility arguments that QED in three dimensions has a critical number of flavors of massless two-component fermions, below which scale invariance is broken by the presence of bilinear condensate. We present numerical evidences from our dynamical lattice simulations using overlap as well as Wilson-Dirac fermions for the absence of bilinear condensate using the following methods: finite-size scaling analysis of the low-lying eigenvalues of the Dirac operator, comparison of the eigenvalue distributions to the non-chiral random matrix theory, and by checking if the inverse participation ratio and number variance show ergodic behavior.

Primary author

Dr Nikhil Karthik (Florida International University)

Co-author

Prof. Rajamani Narayanan (Florida International University)

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