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Main Authors: Karthik, Nikhil, Narayanan, Rajamani, Narayanan, Sruthi A.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.13929
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author Karthik, Nikhil
Narayanan, Rajamani
Narayanan, Sruthi A.
author_facet Karthik, Nikhil
Narayanan, Rajamani
Narayanan, Sruthi A.
contents Two-dimensional QCD with $N_c$ colors and $N_f$ flavors of massless fermions in the fundamental representation is expected to exhibit conformal behavior in the infrared governed by a $u(N_f)$ WZW model with level $N_c$. Using numerical analysis within the lattice formalism with exactly massless overlap fermions, we show the emergence of such behavior in the infrared limit. Both the continuum extrapolated low-lying eigenvalues of the massless Dirac operator and the propagator of scalar mesons exhibit a flow from the ultraviolet to the infrared. We find that the amplitude of the conserved current correlator remains invariant under the flow, while the amplitude of the scalar correlator approaches $N_f$-independent values in the infrared.
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spellingShingle Approaching the conformal WZW behavior in the infrared limit of two-dimensional massless QCD: a lattice study
Karthik, Nikhil
Narayanan, Rajamani
Narayanan, Sruthi A.
High Energy Physics - Lattice
High Energy Physics - Theory
Two-dimensional QCD with $N_c$ colors and $N_f$ flavors of massless fermions in the fundamental representation is expected to exhibit conformal behavior in the infrared governed by a $u(N_f)$ WZW model with level $N_c$. Using numerical analysis within the lattice formalism with exactly massless overlap fermions, we show the emergence of such behavior in the infrared limit. Both the continuum extrapolated low-lying eigenvalues of the massless Dirac operator and the propagator of scalar mesons exhibit a flow from the ultraviolet to the infrared. We find that the amplitude of the conserved current correlator remains invariant under the flow, while the amplitude of the scalar correlator approaches $N_f$-independent values in the infrared.
title Approaching the conformal WZW behavior in the infrared limit of two-dimensional massless QCD: a lattice study
topic High Energy Physics - Lattice
High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.13929