Dynamical restoration of Z_N symmetry in SU(N) + Higgs theories

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2016.06.025zbMATH Open1345.81137OpenAlexW2252547361MaRDI QIDQ314835FDOQ314835

Authors: Minati Biswal, Sanatan Digal, P. S. Saumia 

Publication date: 16 September 2016

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

Abstract: We study the Z_N symmetry in SU(N)+Higgs theories with the Higgs field in the fundamental representation. The distributions of the Polyakov loop show that the Z_N symmetry is explicitly broken in the Higgs phase. On the other hand, inside the Higgs symmetric phase the Polyakov loop distributions and other physical observables exhibit the Z_N symmetry. This effective restoration of the Z_N symmetry changes the nature of the confinement-deconfinenement transition. We argue that the Z_N symmetry will lead to time independent topological defect solutions in the Higgs symmetric deconfined phase which will play important role at high temperatures.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.08295

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zbMATH Keywords

Polyakov loop

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) Unified quantum theories (81V22)

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• The chiral critical point in 3-flavour QCD
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• \(\mathbf Z\)-symmetry and Polyakov loops in hot abelian gauge theories

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