Zero Temperature Chiral Phase Transition in (2+1)-Dimensional QED with a Chern-Simons Term

Abstract

We investigate the zero temperature chiral phase transition in (2+1)-dimensional QED in the presence of a Chern-Simons term, changing the number of fermion flavors. In the symmetric phase, there are no light degrees of freedom even at the critical point. Unlike the case without a Chern-Simons term, the phase transition is first-order.

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• A Comment on the Zero Temperature Chiral Phase Transition in $SU(N)$ Gauge Theories

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