2d affine XY-spin model/4d gauge theory duality and deconfinement

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2012)040zbMATH Open1348.81308arXiv1112.6389OpenAlexW2167925363MaRDI QIDQ339126FDOQ339126

Authors: Mohamed M. Anber, Erich Poppitz, Mithat Ünsal 

Publication date: 7 November 2016

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

Abstract: We introduce a duality between two-dimensional XY-spin models with symmetry-breaking perturbations and certain four-dimensional SU(2)and SU(2)/Z_2 gauge theories, compactified on a small spatial circle R^(1,2) x S^1, and considered at temperatures near the deconfinement transition. In a Euclidean set up, the theory is defined on R^2 x T^2. Similarly, thermal gauge theories of higher rank are dual to new families of "affine" XY-spin models with perturbations. For rank two, these are related to models used to describe the melting of a 2d crystal with a triangular lattice. The connection is made through a multi-component electric-magnetic Coulomb gas representation for both systems. Perturbations in the spin system map to topological defects in the gauge theory, such as monopole-instantons or magnetic bions, and the vortices in the spin system map to the electrically charged W-bosons in field theory (or vice versa, depending on the duality frame). The duality permits one to use the two-dimensional technology of spin systems to study the thermal deconfinement and discrete chiral transitions in four-dimensional SU(N) gauge theories with n_f >=1 adjoint Weyl fermions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.6389

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zbMATH Keywords

confinement't Hooft and Polyakov loopslattice quantum field theoryWilsonduality in gauge fieldtheories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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