Chiral symmetry breaking in three-dimensional quantum electrodynamics as fixed point annihilation

Abstract

Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in three dimensional ($d=3$) quantum electrodynamics is understood as annihilation of an infrared-stable fixed point that describes the large-N conformal phase by another unstable fixed point at a critical number of fermions $N=N_c$. We discuss the root of universality of $N_c$ in this picture, together with some features of the phase boundary in the $(d,N)$ plane. In particular, it is shown that as $d\to 4$, $N_c\to 0$ with a constant slope, our best estimate of which suggests that $N_c=2.89$ in $d=3$.

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