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Influence of a uniform magnetic field on dynamical chiral symmetry breaking in QED
We study dynamical chiral symmetry breaking (DCSB) in an effective QED
theory of d-wave high temperature cuprate superconductors under a uniform
magnetic field. At zero temperature, the external magnetic field induces a
mixed state by generating vortices in the condensate of charged holons. The
growing magnetic field suppresses the superfluid density and thus reduces the
gauge field mass which is opened via the Anderson-Higgs mechanism. By
numerically solving the Dyson-Schwinger gap equation, we show that the massless
fermions acquires a dynamical gap through DCSB mechanism when the magnetic
field strength is above a critical value and the fermion flavors
is below a critical value . Further, it is found that both
and the dynamical fermion gap increase as the magnetic field grows. It is
expected that our result can be tested in phenomena in high temperature cuprate
superconductors.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figure
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