Surface states and chiral symmetry on the lattice.
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In a Hamiltonian formalism we study chiral symmetry for lattice Fermions formulated in terms of Shockley surface states bound to a wall in an extra spatial dimension. For hadronic physics this provides a natural scheme for taking quark masses to zero without requiring a precise tuning of parameters. We illustrate the chiral anomaly as a flow of states in this extra dimension. We discuss two alternatives for extending the picture to a chiral coupling of gauge fields to such Fermions; one with a small explicit breaking of gauge symmetry and one one with heavy mirror Fermions.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Physical review. D, Particles and fields
دوره 50 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1994