Variational estimate of the energy of an elementary excitation of the SU(2) lattice gauge theory
- 15 December 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 30 (12) , 2674-2677
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.30.2674
Abstract
We describe a variational estimate of the energy of an elementary excitation of the SU(2) lattice gauge theory. The vacuum state is modeled by a disordered trial wave function, which is optimized by the variational principle; and the excited state is constructed by letting a translation-invariant sum of plaquette operators act on the vacuum. The result does not have the proper continuum-limit behavior.Keywords
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