The (2 + 1)-d U(1) quantum link model masquerading as deconfined criticality

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2013/12/P12010zbMATH Open1456.81309arXiv1303.6858OpenAlexW3099743033MaRDI QIDQ3301475FDOQ3301475

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Publication date: 11 August 2020

Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The $(2+1)$-d U(1) quantum link model is a gauge theory, amenable to quantum simulation, with a spontaneously broken SO(2) symmetry emerging at a quantum phase transition. Its low-energy physics is described by a $(2+1)$-d $RP(1)$ effective field theory, perturbed by a dangerously irrelevant SO(2) breaking operator, which prevents the interpretation of the emergent pseudo-Goldstone boson as a dual photon. At the quantum phase transition, the model mimics some features of deconfined quantum criticality, but remains linearly confining. Deconfinement only sets in at high temperature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.6858

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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