Abstract
The space of local operators in three-dimensional quantum electrodynamics contains monopole operators that create n units of gauge flux emanating from the insertion point. This paper uses the state-operator correspondence to calculate the anomalous dimensions of these monopole operators perturbatively to next-to-leading order in the 1/Nf expansion, thus improving on the existing leading-order results in the literature. Here, Nf is the number of two-component complex fermion flavors. The scaling dimension of the n=1 monopole operator is 0.265Nf-0.0383+O(1/Nf) at the infrared conformal fixed point.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 065016 |
| Journal | Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue number | 6 |
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| State | Published - Mar 14 2014 |
| Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)