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Title: Time-reversal breaking in QCD4, walls, and dualities in 2 + 1 dimensions

Journal Article · · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Perimeter Inst. for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, ON (Canada)
  2. Weizmann Inst. of Science, Rehovot (Israel); Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States). Simons Center for Geometry and Physics
  3. Inst. for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (United States). School of Natural Sciences

We study SU(N ) Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) in 3+1 dimensions with Nƒ degenerate fundamental quarks with mass m and a θ-parameter. For generic m and θ the theory has a single gapped vacuum. However, as θ is varied through θ = π for large m there is a first order transition. For Nƒ = 1 the first order transition line ends at a point with a massless η' particle (for all N ) and for Nƒ > 1 the first order transition ends at m = 0, where, depending on the value of Nƒ, the IR theory has free Nambu-Goldstone bosons, an interacting conformal field theory, or a free gauge theory. Even when the 4d bulk is smooth, domain walls and interfaces can have interesting phase transitions separating different 3d phases. These turn out to be the phases of the recently studied 3d Chern-Simons matter theories, thus relating the dynamics of QCD4 and QCD3, and, in particular, making contact with the recently discussed dualities in 2+1 dimensions. For example, when the massless 4d theory has an SU(Nƒ) sigma model, the domain wall theory at low (nonzero) mass supports a 3d massless CPNƒ-1 nonlinear σ-model with a Wess-Zumino term, in agreement with the conjectured dynamics in 2+1 dimensions.

Research Organization:
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0009988
OSTI ID:
1502470
Journal Information:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Vol. 2018, Issue 1; ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer BerlinCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 129 works
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