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Phase transition induced by a magnetic field

G. W. Semenoff, I. A. Shovkovy, L. C. R. Wijewardhana

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9803371

Abstract

The magnetic catalysis of discrete chiral symmetry breaking in the 2+1 dimensional Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model is analyzed. A particular attention is paid to a possible application of the effect in solid state physics. The fermion contribution to the thermal conductivity as a function of the dynamical mass (energy gap in the spectrum) is estimated and is shown to be suppressed when a non-zero order parameter develops.

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