Manifestation of a nontrivial vacuum in discrete light-cone quantization.
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چکیده
We study a (1+1)-dimensional lambda phi(4) model with a light-cone zero mode and constant external source to describe spontaneous symmetry breaking. In the broken phase, we find degenerate vacua and discuss their stability based on effective-potential analysis. The vacuum triviality is spurious in the broken phase because these states have lower energy than Fock vacuum. Our results are based on the variational principle.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Physical review letters
دوره 87 27 Pt 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2001