D.K.Sinclair
HEP Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Wednesday, December 21
Seminar Room, First Floor, Physics, University of Adelaide
Lattice simulations of Born-Infeld non-linear QED
Born-Infeld non-linear electrodynamics was introduced to render the self energy of a point particle finite. It has recently been revived as a field theory for branes and strings. We quantize this theory on a Euclidean space-time lattice, using Metropolis Monte-Carlo simulations to measure the properties of the quantum field theory. Luscher-Weisz methods are used to measure the electromagnetic fields from a static point charge.