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Aspects of Confinement and Chiral Dynamics in 2-d QED at Finite Temperature

R. Rodriguez, Y. Hosotani, J. E. Hetrick, S. Iso

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9608123

Abstract

We evaluate the Polyakov loop and string tension at zero and finite temperature in QED2. Using bozonization the problem is reduced to solving the Schrödinger equation with a particular potential determined by the ground state. In the presence of two sources of opposite charges the vacuum angle parameter θ changes by 2π(q/e), independent of the number of flavors. This, in turn, alters the chiral condensate. Particularly, in the one flavor case through a simple computer algorithm, we explore the chiral dynamics of a heavy fermion.

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