Gauge interactions and topological phases of matter

DOI10.1093/PTEP/PTW131zbMATH Open1361.81113arXiv1604.06184OpenAlexW2963363501MaRDI QIDQ5347198FDOQ5347198

Authors: Yuji Tachikawa, Kazuya Yonekura 

Publication date: 22 May 2017

Published in: PTEP. Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We initiate the study of the effects of strongly-coupled gauge interactions on the properties of the topological phases of matter. In particular, we discuss fermionic systems with three spatial dimensions, protected by time reversal symmetry. We first derive a sufficient condition for the introduction of a dynamical Yang-Mills field to preserve the topological phase of matter, and then show how the massless pions capture in the infrared the topological properties of the fermions in the ultraviolet. Finally, we use the S-duality of $mathcalN=2$ supersymmetric $SU(2)$ gauge theory with $N_f=4$ flavors to show that the $u=16$ phase of Majorana fermions can be continuously connected to the trivial $u=0$ phase.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.06184

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

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