Vacuum structure of Yang-Mills theory as a function of θ

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Title: Vacuum structure of Yang-Mills theory as a function of θ

Abstract

It is believed that in SU(N) Yang-Mills theory observables are N -branched functions of the topological θ angle. This is supposed to be due to the existence of a set of locally-stable candidate vacua, which compete for global stability as a function of θ. We study the number of θ vacua, their interpretation, and their stability properties using systematic semiclassical analysis in the context of adiabatic circle compactification on $$ \mathbb{R}$$ ³ × S ¹. We find that while observables are indeed N-branched functions of θ, there are only ≈ N/2 locally-stable candidate vacua for any given θ. We point out that the different θ vacua are distinguished by the expectation values of certain magnetic line operators that carry non-zero GNO charge but zero ’t Hooft charge. Finally, we show that in the regime of validity of our analysis YM theory has spinodal points as a function of θ, and gather evidence for the conjecture that these spinodal points are present even in the $$ \mathbb{R}$$ ⁴ limit.

Authors:

Aitken, Kyle ^[1]; Cherman, Aleksey ^[2]; Ünsal, Mithat ^[3]

Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States). Dept. of Physics
Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States). Inst. for Nuclear Theory
North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States). Dept. of Physics

Publication Date:: 2018-09-06

Research Org.:: Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States); North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

OSTI Identifier:: 1507783

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-00ER41132; FG02-03ER41260; SC0011637

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2018; Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479

Publisher:: Springer Berlin

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Discrete Symmetries, Global Symmetries, Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Wilson, 't Hooft and Polyakov loops

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                    Aitken, Kyle, Cherman, Aleksey, and Ünsal, Mithat. Vacuum structure of Yang-Mills theory as a function of θ.  United States: N. p., 2018. 
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                    Aitken, Kyle, Cherman, Aleksey, & Ünsal, Mithat. Vacuum structure of Yang-Mills theory as a function of θ.  United States.  doi:10.1007/jhep09(2018)030.

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@article{osti_1507783,

  title        = {Vacuum structure of Yang-Mills theory as a function of θ},

  author       = {Aitken, Kyle and Cherman, Aleksey and Ünsal, Mithat},

  abstractNote = {It is believed that in SU(N) Yang-Mills theory observables are N -branched functions of the topological θ angle. This is supposed to be due to the existence of a set of locally-stable candidate vacua, which compete for global stability as a function of θ. We study the number of θ vacua, their interpretation, and their stability properties using systematic semiclassical analysis in the context of adiabatic circle compactification on $ \mathbb{R}$3 × S1. We find that while observables are indeed N-branched functions of θ, there are only ≈ N/2 locally-stable candidate vacua for any given θ. We point out that the different θ vacua are distinguished by the expectation values of certain magnetic line operators that carry non-zero GNO charge but zero ’t Hooft charge. Finally, we show that in the regime of validity of our analysis YM theory has spinodal points as a function of θ, and gather evidence for the conjecture that these spinodal points are present even in the $ \mathbb{R}$4 limit.},

  doi          = {10.1007/jhep09(2018)030},

  journal      = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},

  number       = 9,

  volume       = 2018,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2018},

  month        = {9}

}

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Figure 1: [Color Online.] An sketch of the phase structure of SU(N) YM theory for N = 4 as a function of θ. The vertical axis depicts the vacuum energy density. The gray dashed curves indicate the energy density associated with the four distinct θ-extrema. The colored bold curves indicatemore »

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Deconfinement in $ \mathcal{N}=1 $ super Yang-Mills theory on $ {{\mathbb{R}}^3}\times {{\mathbb{S}}^1} $ via dual-Coulomb gas and “affine” XY-model
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The semi-classical expansion and resurgence in gauge theories: new perturbative, instanton, bion, and renormalon effects
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Domain walls and the decay rate of the excited vacua in large $N$ Yang-Mills theory
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Periodic instantons with non-trivial holonomy
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The 4D SU(3) gauge theory with an imaginary θ term
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Notes on theta dependence in holographic Yang-Mills
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Microscopic structure of magnetic bions
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Thermal properties of gauge fields and quark liberation
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Finite size phase transitions in QCD with adjoint fermions
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Quark masses and chiral symmetry
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