Quantum phase transitions in cascading gauge theory

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2011.11.007zbMATH Open1246.81110arXiv1108.6070OpenAlexW17288044MaRDI QIDQ447209FDOQ447209

Authors: Alex Buchel 

Publication date: 3 September 2012

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

Abstract: We study a ground state of N=1 supersymmetric SU(K+P) x SU(K) cascading gauge theory of Klebanov et.al [1,2] on R x S^3 at zero temperature. A radius of S^3 sets a compactification scale mu. An interplay between mu and the strong coupling scale Lambda of the theory leads to an interesting pattern of quantum phases of the system. For mu > mu_cSB=1.240467(8)Lambda the ground state of the theory is chirally symmetric. At mu=mu_cSB the theory undergoes the first-order transition to a phase with spontaneous breaking of the chiral symmetry. We further demonstrate that the chirally symmetric ground state of cascading gauge theory becomes perturbatively unstable at scales below mu_c=0.950634(5)mu_cSB. Finally, we point out that for mu < 1.486402(5)Lambda the stress-energy tensor of cascading gauge theory can source inflation of a closed Universe.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.6070

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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