Two-dimensional Quantum Field Models (with applications to Statistical Mechanics)
arXiv:1208.6568
Abstract
Two dimensional toy models display, in a gentler setting, manysalient aspects of Quantum Field Theory. Here I discuss a concrete two dimensional case, the Thirring model, which illustrates several important concepts of this theory: the anomalous dimension of the fields; the exact solvability; the anomalies of the Ward-Takahashi identities. Besides, I give a glimpse of the decisive role that this model plays in the study of an apparently unrelated topic: correlation critical exponents of two dimensional lattice systems of Statistical Mechanics.
10 pages; International Conference on Mathematical Physics 2012 - Topical Section: Quantum Field Theory