Chiral condensate, susceptibilities, critical coupling and indices in QED$_4$

Abstract

We measure chiral susceptibilities in the Coulomb phase of noncompact QED$_4$ in $8^4, 10^4$ and $12^4$ lattices. The MFA approach allows simulations in the chiral limit which are therefore free from arbitrary mass extrapolations. Using the critical couplings extracted from these calculations, we study the critical behaviour of the chiral condensate, which we find in disagreement with the predictions of logarithmically improved scalar Mean Field theory.