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Can I do anything instructive by simulating QED on a lattice?

For learning something about the degrees of freedom and underlying path integral math, is it possible to do some kind of scalar QED or normal QED simulation on a lattice in the same way Lattice QCD is ...
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Gauss law with staggered fermions

I was wondering if someone could explain how to derive the discrete version of Gauss law in 1+1 QED using staggered Fermions. The result I am trying to reproduce is found in multiple references [see ...
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Proof of commutation relation for lattice QFT

How do you prove the following commutation relation for the lattice QFT \begin{equation} [\phi(X),\Pi(y)]=\text{i}a^{-d}\delta_{x,y}\mathbb{I}? \end{equation}
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