The phase transition in the multiflavour Schwinger model

Abstract

A summary is given of a quantization of the multiflavour Schwinger model on a finite-temperature cylinder with chirality-breaking boundary conditions at its spatial ends, and it is shown that the analytic expression for the chiral condensate implies that the theory exhibits a second order phase transition with $T_c=0$.

6 pages, talk given at International Conference on Quantization, Gauge Theory, and Strings: Conference Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Efim Fradkin, 5-10 June 2000, Moscow, Russia