Wilson loop in light-front quantization

H. Reinhardt
Phys. Rev. D 95, 045015 – Published 24 February 2017

Abstract

Using Dirac’s method for the quantization of constrained systems QED is canonically quantized in the front form in a gauge which is the light-front analog of the Weyl gauge. From the obtained vacuum wave functional the spatial Wilson loop is calculated. The result known from the canonical instant-form quantization or from the covariant path integral quantization is found only if the static limit x+0 is taken in a specific order. The same ambiguity is also found in the static photon propagator in coordinate space.

  • Received 22 December 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.045015

© 2017 American Physical Society

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Particles & Fields

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H. Reinhardt

  • Institut für Theoretische Physik, Auf der Morgenstelle 14, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany

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Vol. 95, Iss. 4 — 15 February 2017

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