Spontaneously broken boosts in CFTs

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2021)064zbMATH Open1472.81223arXiv2102.12583OpenAlexW3201605462MaRDI QIDQ2237604FDOQ2237604

Authors: Zohar Komargodski, Márk Mezei, Sridip Pal, Avia Raviv-Moshe 

Publication date: 27 October 2021

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

Abstract: Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) have rich dynamics in heavy states. We describe the constraints due to spontaneously broken boost and dilatation symmetries in such states. The spontaneously broken boost symmetries require the existence of new low-lying primaries whose scaling dimension gap, we argue, scales as $O(1)$. We demonstrate these ideas in various states, including fluid, superfluid, mean field theory, and Fermi surface states. We end with some remarks about the large charge limit in 2d and discuss a theory of a single compact boson with an arbitrary conformal anomaly.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.12583

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryspace-time symmetriesspontaneous symmetry breaking

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

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