Scale-invariance and scale-breaking in parity-invariant three-dimensional QCD

Abstract

We present a numerical study of three-dimensional two-color QCD with $N=0,2,4,8$ and 12 flavors of massless two-component fermions using parity-preserving improved Wilson-Dirac fermions. A finite volume analysis provides strong evidence for the presence of $Sp(N)$ symmetry-breaking bilinear condensate when $N\le 2$ and its absence for $N\ge 8$. A weaker evidence for the bilinear condensate is shown for $N=4$. We estimate the critical number of flavors below which scale-invariance is broken by the bilinear condensate to be between $N=4$ and 6.

25 pages, 8 figures; published version

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