Partial breakdown of center symmetry in large-N QCD with adjoint Wilson fermions

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2010)069zbMATH Open1269.81188arXiv0911.0352MaRDI QIDQ359017FDOQ359017

Barak Bringoltz

Publication date: 9 August 2013

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

Abstract: We study the one-loop potential of large-N QCD with adjoint Dirac fermions. Space-time is a discretization of R^3 x S^1 where the compact direction consists of a single lattice site. We use Wilson fermions with different values of the quark mass m and set the lattice spacings in the compact and non-compact directions to be a_t and a_s respectively. Extending the results of JHEP 0906:091,2009, we prove that if the ratio xi = a_s/a_t obeys 0<xi<2, then the minimum of the one-loop lattice potential for one or more Dirac flavors is Z_N symmetric at the chiral point. For xi=0 our formulas reduce to those obtained in a continuum regularization of the R^3, and our proof holds in that case as well. As we increase m from zero, we find a cascade of transitions where Z_N breaks to Z_K. For very small masses, K ~ 1/(a_t m) >> 1, while for large masses K ~ O(1). Despite certain UV sensitivities of the lattice one-loop potential, this phase structure is similar to the one obtained in the continuum works of Kovtun-Unsal-Yaffe, Myers-Ogilvie, and Hollowood-Myers. We explain the physical origin of the cascade of transitions and its relation to the embedding of space-time into color space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.0352

zbMATH Keywords

confinement1/N expansionlattice gauge field theoriesspontaneous symmetry breaking

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

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