Metastable vacua in large-N QCD₃
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Publication:2185236
DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2020)004zbMATH Open1434.81138arXiv1905.01797WikidataQ126396202 ScholiaQ126396202MaRDI QIDQ2185236FDOQ2185236
Authors: Adi Armoni, Thomas T. Dumitrescu, Guido Festuccia, Zohar Komargodski 
Publication date: 4 June 2020
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We reexamine the vacuum structure of three-dimensional quantum chromodynamics (QCD) with gauge group , fundamental quark flavors, and a level- Chern-Simons term. This analysis can be reliably carried out in the large-, fixed limit of the theory, up to certain assumptions that we spell out explicitly. At leading order in the large- expansion we find distinct, exactly degenerate vacuum superselection sectors with different patterns of flavor-symmetry breaking. The associated massless Nambu-Goldstone bosons are generically accompanied by topological Chern-Simons theories. This set of vacua contains many candidate phases previously proposed for QCD. At subleading order in the large- expansion, the exact degeneracy between the different superselection sectors is lifted, leading to a multitude of metastable vacua. If we dial the quark masses, different metastable vacua can become the true vacuum of the theory, leading to a sequence of first-order phase transitions. This intricate large- dynamics can be captured by the previously proposed bosonic dual theories for QCD, provided these bosonic duals are furnished with a suitable scalar potential. Interestingly, this potential must include terms beyond quartic order in the scalar fields.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.01797
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