Laurence Yaffe, University of Washington
PAT C421
The feasibility of studying, numerically, properties of infinite volume QCD-like theories in the large N limit using coherent state variational methods is reassessed. An entirely new implementation of this approach is described, applicable to SU(N) lattice gauge theories, with or without fundamental representation fermions, on cubic lattices of up to four dimensions. In addition to various test cases, initial results are presented for Hamiltonian Yang-Mills theory on an infinite two-dimensional spatial lattice.