Solvable Models with Massless Light-Front Fermions
Autor: | Lubomir Martinovic, Pierre Grangé |
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Přispěvatelé: | Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
Rok vydání: | 2015 |
Předmět: |
Physics
Thirring model 010308 nuclear & particles physics [PHYS.MPHY]Physics [physics]/Mathematical Physics [math-ph] Degrees of freedom (statistics) Fermion 01 natural sciences Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics Massless particle Theoretical physics Quantization (physics) symbols.namesake Classical mechanics Dirac equation 0103 physical sciences symbols 010306 general physics Hamiltonian (quantum mechanics) Quantum ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS |
Zdroj: | Theory and Experiment for Hadrons on the Light-Front (Light Cone 2014) Theory and Experiment for Hadrons on the Light-Front (Light Cone 2014), May 2014, Raleigh, United States. pp.607-613, ⟨10.1007/s00601-015-0983-y⟩ |
ISSN: | 1432-5411 0177-7963 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s00601-015-0983-y |
Popis: | Two-dimensional models with massless fermions (Thirring model, Thirring–Wess and Schwinger model, among others) have been solved exactly a long time ago in the conventional (space-like) form of field theory and in some cases also in the conformal field theoretical approach. However, solutions in the light-front form of the theory have not been obtained so far. The primary obstacle is the apparent difficulty with light-front quantization of free massless fermions, where one half of the fermionic degrees of freedom seems to “disappear” due to the structure of a non-dynamical constraint equation. We shall show a simple way how the missing degree of freedom can be recovered as the massless limit of the massive solution of the constraint. This opens the door to the genuine light front solution of the above models since their solvability is related to free Heisenberg fields, which are the true dynamical variables in these models. In the present contribution, we give an operator solution of the light front Thirring model, including the correct form of the interacting quantum currents and of the Hamiltonian. A few remarks on the light-front Thirring–Wess models are also added. Simplifications and clarity of the light-front formalism turn out to be quite remarkable. |
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