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The stability of the chiral vacuum is explored in Coulomb gauge QCD, in the Breit frame. We find that perturbative Coulomb and transverse gluon exchange destabilises the chirally symmetric vacuum towards a chiral symmetry breaking solution.
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Davis, A.C., Matheson, A.M. On the stability of the chiral vacuum. Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 56, 703–705 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01474746
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