Fractons and Exotic Symmetries from Branes
Abstract
The emerging study of fractons, a new type of quasi-particle with restricted mobility, has motivated the construction of several classes of interesting continuum quantum field theories with novel properties. One such class consists of foliated field theories which, roughly, are built by coupling together fields supported on the leaves of foliations of spacetime. Another approach, which we refer to as exotic field theory, focuses on constructing Lagrangians consistent with special symmetries (like subsystem symmetries) that are adjacent to fracton physics. A third framework is that of infinite-component Chern-Simons theories, which attempts to generalize the role of conventional Chern-Simons theory in describing (2+1)D Abelian topological order to fractonic order in (3+1)D. The study of these theories is ongoing, and many of their properties remain to be understood. Historically, it has been fruitful to study QFTs by embedding them into string theory. One way this can be done is via D-branes, extended objects whose dynamics can, at low energies, be described in terms of conventional quantum field theory. QFTs that can be realized in this way can then be analyzed using the rich mathematical and physical structure of string theory. In this paper, we show that foliated field theories, exotic field theories,more »
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- Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States); Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
- Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
- Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States); Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
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- Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States); Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC); Simons Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1837915
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- OSTI ID: 1922349; OSTI ID: 1997048
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- SC0011637; SC0020007; 651440; PHY-1720397; DGE-1656518; SC0022021; DE‐SC0011637; DE‐SC0020007
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- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Fortschritte der Physik
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 69; Journal Issue: 11-12; Journal ID: ISSN 0015-8208
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- Wiley
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS
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Geng, Hao, Kachru, Shamit, Karch, Andreas, Nally, Richard, and Rayhaun, Brandon C. Fractons and Exotic Symmetries from Branes. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1002/prop.202100133.
Geng, Hao, Kachru, Shamit, Karch, Andreas, Nally, Richard, & Rayhaun, Brandon C. Fractons and Exotic Symmetries from Branes. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/prop.202100133
Geng, Hao, Kachru, Shamit, Karch, Andreas, Nally, Richard, and Rayhaun, Brandon C. Sun .
"Fractons and Exotic Symmetries from Branes". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/prop.202100133. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1837915.
@article{osti_1837915,
title = {Fractons and Exotic Symmetries from Branes},
author = {Geng, Hao and Kachru, Shamit and Karch, Andreas and Nally, Richard and Rayhaun, Brandon C.},
abstractNote = {The emerging study of fractons, a new type of quasi-particle with restricted mobility, has motivated the construction of several classes of interesting continuum quantum field theories with novel properties. One such class consists of foliated field theories which, roughly, are built by coupling together fields supported on the leaves of foliations of spacetime. Another approach, which we refer to as exotic field theory, focuses on constructing Lagrangians consistent with special symmetries (like subsystem symmetries) that are adjacent to fracton physics. A third framework is that of infinite-component Chern-Simons theories, which attempts to generalize the role of conventional Chern-Simons theory in describing (2+1)D Abelian topological order to fractonic order in (3+1)D. The study of these theories is ongoing, and many of their properties remain to be understood. Historically, it has been fruitful to study QFTs by embedding them into string theory. One way this can be done is via D-branes, extended objects whose dynamics can, at low energies, be described in terms of conventional quantum field theory. QFTs that can be realized in this way can then be analyzed using the rich mathematical and physical structure of string theory. In this paper, we show that foliated field theories, exotic field theories, and infinite-component Chern-Simons theories can all be realized on the world-volumes of branes. We hope that these constructions will ultimately yield valuable insights into the physics of these interesting field theories.},
doi = {10.1002/prop.202100133},
journal = {Fortschritte der Physik},
number = 11-12,
volume = 69,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Oct 17 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Sun Oct 17 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}
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