• Corpus ID: 15423909

The 1+1 Dimensional Abelian Higgs Model Revisited: Non-perturbative Dynamics in the Physical Sector

@inproceedings{Gouba2008The1D,
  title={The 1+1 Dimensional Abelian Higgs Model Revisited: Non-perturbative Dynamics in the Physical Sector},
  author={Laure Gouba and Jan Govaerts NITheP and Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study and Stellenbosch and Rep. South Africa Aims and Muizenberg and Rep. South Africa and CP3 and Ucl and Louvain-la-Neuve and Belgium and Fellow and ICMPA-UNESCO and Cotonou and Rep. Benin},
  year={2008}
}

• L. Gouba, Jan Govaerts NITheP, +12 authors R. Benin
• Published 3 December 2008
• Physics

In this paper the two dimensional Abelian Higgs model is revisited. We show that in the physical sector, this model describes the coupling of the electric field to the radial part, in field space, of the complex scalar field. Comment: Contribution to the Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Contemporary Problems in Mathematical Physics, October 27 - November 2, 2007, Cotonou (Republic of Benin), 6 pages