Logarithmic triviality of compact QED coupled to a four-Fermi interaction

This is the completion of an exploratory study of compact lattice quantum electrodynamics with a weak four-Fermi interaction and four species of massless fermions. In this formulation of quantum electrodynamics massless fermions can be simulated directly and finite size scaling analyses can be performed at the theory's chiral symmetry breaking critical point. High statistics simulations on lattices ranging from 8⁴ to 24⁴ yield the equation of state, critical indices, scaling functions and cumulants. The measurements are well fit with the orthodox hypothesis that the theory is logarithmically trivial and its continuum limit suffers from Landau's zero charge problem.