Large-N_f behavior of the Yukawa model: analytic results

dc.creatorCaracciolo, Sergio
dc.creatorMognetti, Bortolo Matteo
dc.creatorPelissetto, Andrea
dc.date2005-09-20
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T06:22:58Z
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dc.descriptionWe investigate the Yukawa model in which $N_f$ fermions are coupled with a scalar field $ϕ$ through a Yukawa interaction. The phase diagram is rather well understood. If the fermions are massless, there is a chiral transition at $T_c$: for $T < T_c$ chiral symmetry is spontaneously broken. At $N_f=\infty$ the transition is mean-field like, while, for any finite $N_f$, standard arguments predict Ising behavior. This apparent contradiction has been explained by Kogut et al., who showed by scaling arguments and Monte Carlo simulations that in the large-$N_f$ limit the width of the Ising critical region scales as a power of $1/N_f$, so that only mean-field behavior is observed for $N_f$ strictly equal to infinity. We will show how the results of Kogut et al. can be recovered analytically in the framework of a generalized $1/N_f$ expansion. The method we use is a simple generalization of the method we have recently applied to a two-dimensional generalized Heisenberg model.
dc.descriptionTalk presented at XXIIIrd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, 25-30 July 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0509063
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0509063
dc.identifierPoS LAT2005 (2005) 187
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/96075
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Lattice
dc.titleLarge-N_f behavior of the Yukawa model: analytic results
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