{
  "id": "hep-ph/9408210",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "1994-08-02T10:22:18.000Z",
  "updated": "1995-03-16T10:39:58.000Z",
  "title": "First-order Phase Transition in Three-dimensional QED with Chern--Simons Term",
  "authors": [
    "Kei-Ichi Kondo",
    "Pieter Maris"
  ],
  "comment": "8 pages, LaTeX, final version, to be published in Phys. Rev. Lett",
  "journal": "Phys.Rev.Lett. 74 (1995) 18-21",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.18",
  "categories": [
    "hep-ph",
    "cond-mat",
    "hep-lat",
    "hep-th"
  ],
  "abstract": "We have studied the chiral phase transition in three-dimensional QED in the presence of a Chern--Simons term for the gauge field. There exists a phase where the chiral symmetry is broken dynamically and we have determined the critical line for this symmetry breaking as a function of the effective coupling and the strength of the additional Chern--Simons term. In the presence of a Chern--Simons term, the chiral phase transition turns out to be first order, in sharp contrast to the phase transition in pure three-dimensional QED.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "1995-03-16T10:39:58.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "first-order phase transition",
      "three-dimensional",
      "chiral phase transition turns",
      "additional chern-simons term",
      "gauge field"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. Lett."
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "LaTeX",
      "pages": 8,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 38731
    }
  }
}