Complementarity and stability conditions

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2017.06.008MaRDI QIDQ2410197zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors H. Georgi

Publication date 17 October 2017

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.00369

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Abstract: We discuss the issue of complementarity between the confining phase and the Higgs phase for gauge theories in which there are no light particles below the scale of confinement or spontaneous symmetry breaking. We show with a number of examples that even though the low energy effective theories are the same (and trivial), discontinuous changes in the structure of heavy stable particles can signal a phase transition and thus we can sometimes argue that two phases which have different structures of heavy particles cannot be continuously connected and thus the phases cannot be complementary. We discuss what this means and suggest that such "stability conditions" can be a useful physical check for complementarity.

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