Transport in Chern-Simons-matter theories

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2016)090zbMath1390.81324arXiv1605.01122MaRDI QIDQ1638937

Sean A. Hartnoll, Raghu Mahajan, Guy Gur-Ari

Publication date: 12 June 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The frequency-dependent longitudinal and Hall conductivities --- $sigma_{xx}$ and $sigma_{xy}$ --- are dimensionless functions of $omega/T$ in 2+1 dimensional CFTs at nonzero temperature. These functions characterize the spectrum of charged excitations of the theory and are basic experimental observables. We compute these conductivities for large $N$ Chern-Simons theory with fermion matter. The computation is exact in the 't Hooft coupling $lambda$ at $N = infty$. We describe various physical features of the conductivity, including an explicit relation between the weight of the delta function at $omega = 0$ in $sigma_{xx}$ and the existence of infinitely many higher spin conserved currents in the theory. We also compute the conductivities perturbatively in Chern-Simons theory with scalar matter and show that the resulting functions of $omega/T$ agree with the strong coupling fermionic result. This provides a new test of the conjectured 3d bosonization duality. In matching the Hall conductivities we resolve an outstanding puzzle by carefully treating an extra anomaly that arises in the regularization scheme used.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.01122

zbMATH Keywords

$1/N$ expansion field theories in lower dimensions duality in gauge field theories Chern-Simons theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

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