The relation between chiral symmetry spontaneously breaking and confinement in QED

摘要

In this paper, we use Parisi and Sourlas dimensional reduction to show that QED has two phases, the strong coupling phase and weak coupling phase. Because chiral symmetry is spontaneously broken, particles with fractional charges are confined in the strong coupling phase by the condensation of topological configurations, and particles with integer charges are screened by fermion pairs. [References: 40]