2013•Progress of Theoretical Physics SupplementRequires access
Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Quantum Field Theory
Thomas Appelquist
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Abstract
An analysis of the spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry in three dimensional electrodynamics is described. It is argued that this model, when treated in a 1/N expansion, does exhibit spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking. This is established by finding analytic and numerical solutions to the Dyson-Schwinger equation and then computing the composite-operator effective potential.