Quantum electrodynamics in 2+1 dimensions, confinement, and the stability of U(1) spin liquids

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 17, 2005, Pages

  Nogueira, Flavio S ^a   Kleinert, Hagen ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPACT QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; DIRAC FERMIONS; NONCOMPACT THEORY; RENORMALIZATION GROUP ANALYSIS;

CHARGED PARTICLES; ELECTRIC INSULATORS; ELECTRODYNAMICS; LIQUIDS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 28844465491     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.176406     Document Type: Article

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