Confinement Versus Screening in the Schwinger Model on AdS$_2$ from Bosonization and Tensor Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19468v1
• Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:00:02 GMT
• Title: Confinement Versus Screening in the Schwinger Model on AdS$_2$ from Bosonization and Tensor Networks
• Abstract summary: We analyze confinement and screening in single-flavor quantum electrodynamics (QED$$) on two-dimensional anti-de Sitter space.<n>The theory is formulated in two frames adapted to distinct choices of a preferred time coordinate: the Schwarzschild frame, associated with the Boulware vacuum, and the global AdS$$ frame, associated with the global AdS$$ vacuum.<n>We perform extensive numerical simulations of the static potential and the electric flux-tube profile for varying fermion masses, which we match to the continuum prediction.
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• Abstract: We analyze confinement and screening in single-flavor quantum electrodynamics (QED$_2$) on two-dimensional anti-de Sitter space (AdS$_2$), with and without a Schwarzschild black hole, both in the continuum and on the lattice. The theory is formulated in two frames adapted to distinct choices of a preferred time coordinate: the Schwarzschild frame, associated with the Boulware vacuum, and the global AdS$_2$ frame, associated with the $\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{R})$-invariant vacuum. In the massless limit, the static potential between an external charge-anticharge pair is obtained in closed form by bosonization, at both zero and finite temperature. After subtraction of the position-dependent probe self-energies, which, unlike in flat space, are not constant, the potential remains finite as the geodesic separation is taken to infinity, establishing that the theory is screened. This is consistent with the explicit breaking of the $\mathrm{U}(1)$ electric one-form symmetry by the dynamical fermions, and resolves a confining/screening ambiguity in earlier treatments that identify the static potential with the unsubtracted ground-state energy. To validate the continuum analysis, we propose a covariant discretization scheme for placing fermions in curved spacetime on the lattice while ensuring that the continuum properties of the spin and gauge connections are restored in the continuum limit. This construction resolves ambiguities in the existing literature on lattice fermions in curved backgrounds and provides the foundation for our tensor-network simulations. Using a matrix product state ansatz, we confirm our analytical predictions for the phase diagram in AdS$_2$. We perform extensive numerical simulations of the static potential and the electric flux-tube profile for varying fermion masses, which we match to the continuum prediction.

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