Jacqueline A. Bonnet, Christian S. Fischer, Richard Williams
Published 2011-03-08, updated 2011-06-29Version 2
We investigate the effect of anisotropies in the fermion velocities of 2+1 dimensional QED on the critical number N_f^c of fermions for dynamical mass generation. Our framework are the Dyson-Schwinger equations for the gauge boson and fermion propagators formulated in a finite volume. In contrast to previous Dyson-Schwinger studies we do not rely on an expansion in small anisotropies but keep the full velocity dependence of fermion equations intact. As result we find sizable variations of N_f^c away from the isotropic point in agreement with other approaches. We discuss the relevance of our findings for models of high-T_c superconductors.
Comments: 9 pages, 7 figures, v2: minor changes, typos corrected, version accepted by PRB
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