PARITY BREAKING AT HIGH-TEMPERATURE AND DENSITY

被引:6
作者
AMBJORN, J
FARAKOS, K
SHAPOSHNIKOV, ME
机构
[1] CERN, CH-1211 GENEVA 23, SWITZERLAND
[2] NATL TECH UNIV ATHENS, DEPT PHYS, GR-15773 ATHENS, GREECE
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10.1016/0550-3213(93)90076-2
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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We investigate the question of parity breaking in three-dimensional euclidean SU(2) gauge-Higgs theory by Monte Carlo simulations. We observe no sign of spontaneous parity breaking in the behaviour of both local and non-local gauge invariant operators. However, the presence of parity odd terms in the action can induce a phase transition to a parity odd ground state which is characterized by a Chern-Simons like condensate. The implications for various proposed scenarios of fermion number non-conservation is discussed.
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页码:633 / 657
页数:25
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