Publications [#303654] of Shailesh Chandrasekharan

Papers Published

1. Brower, R; Chandrasekharan, S; Wiese, UJ, QCD AS A QUANTUM LINK MODEL, Phys. Rev. D, vol. 60 no. 9 (1999), pp. 094502, American Physical Society (APS) [9704106v1], [doi]
   (last updated on 2025/07/04)

   Abstract:
   QCD is constructed as a lattice gauge theory in which the elements of the link matrices are represented by non-commuting operators acting in a Hilbert space. The resulting quantum link model for QCD is formulated with a fifth Euclidean dimension, whose extent resembles the inverse gauge coupling of the resulting four-dimensional theory after dimensional reduction. The inclusion of quarks is natural in Shamir's variant of Kaplan's fermion method, which does not require fine-tuning to approach the chiral limit. A rishon representation in terms of fermionic constituents of the gluons is derived and the quantum link Hamiltonian for QCD with a U(N) gauge symmetry is expressed in terms of glueball, meson and constituent quark operators. The new formulation of QCD is promising both from an analytic and from a computational point of view.