Abstract
We explain from an intuitive renormalization-group perspective how "collapse of the wave function" in quenched quantum electrodynamics leads to coupling-constant renormalization and an interacting ultraviolet stable fixed point. A diagrammatic expansion in , the number of fermion species, suggests that vacuum polarization leads the fixed point of the quenched model stable, and computer-simulation data support this possibility. The scaling region of the quenched lattice model is discovered numerically.
- Received 23 May 1988
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.61.2416
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