Topological axion electrodynamics and 4-group symmetry

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2021.136762zbMATH Open1483.81129arXiv2107.08753OpenAlexW3213410965MaRDI QIDQ824191FDOQ824191

Muneto Nitta, Yoshimasa Hidaka, Ryo Yokokura

Publication date: 14 December 2021

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study higher-form symmetries and a higher group in the low energy limit of a $(3+1)$-dimensional axion electrodynamics with a massive axion and a massive photon. A topological field theory describing topological excitations with the axion-photon coupling, which we call a topological axion electrodynamics, is obtained in the low energy limit. Higher-form symmetries of the topological axion electrodynamics are specified by equations of motion and Bianchi identities. We find that there are induced anyons on the intersections of symmetry generators. By a link of worldlines of the anyons, we show that the worldvolume of an axionic domain wall is topologically ordered. We further specify the underlying mathematical structure elegantly describing all salient features of the theory to be a 4-group.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.08753

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25)

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