Non-trivial θ-vacuum effects in the 2-d O(3) model

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Bogli M ^a   Niedermayer, F ^a   Pepe, M ^b   Wiese, U J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Lattice quantum field theory; Nonperturbative effects; Sigma models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860656549     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2012)117     Document Type: Article

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