https://doi.org/10.1140/epjh/s13129-024-00089-0
Personal Recollection
Lattice Gauge theory before lattice Gauge theory
1
Department of Energy, Division of High Energy Physics, 20585, Washington, DC, USA
2
Department of Physics - TQHN, University of Maryland, 82 Regents Drive, 20742, College Park, MD, USA
Received:
12
December
2024
Accepted:
13
December
2024
Published online:
28
December
2024
How was Lattice Gauge Theory born? What was it like in the “early days” of the 1970s and 80s before lattice field theory became a substantial subfield of high energy theory? How did high energy physics and condensed matter theory get together? What were the big physics problems and technical challenges of the day? This short talk looks at these topics from one person’s personal recollections, experiences and perspective.
This article is dedicated to the memory of the author’s thesis advisor, James D. Bjorken, 1934–2024.
The original online version of this article was revised due to a retrospective Open Access order.
A correction to this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1140/epjh/s13129-025-00094-x.
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corrected publication 2025
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