Surface defects in the O(N) model

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2023)074MaRDI QIDQ6056909zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Maxime Trépanier

Publication date 25 October 2023

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10486

zbMATH Keywords

't Hooft and Polyakov loops\(1/N\) expansionfield theories in higher dimensionsrenormalization groupWilson

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum theory (81-XX)

Abstract: I study the two-dimensional defects of the $d$ dimensional critical $O(N)$ model and the defect RG flows between them. By combining the $epsilon$-expansion around $d=4$ and $d=6$ as well as large $N$ techniques, I find new conformal defects and examine their behavior across dimensions and at various $N$. I discuss how some of these fixed points relate to the known ordinary, special and extraordinary transitions in the 3d theory, as well as examine the presence of new symmetry breaking fixed points preserving an $O(p)imesO(N-p)$ subgroup of $O(N)$ for $Nle{N}_c$ (with the estimate $N_c=6$). I characterise these fixed points by obtaining their conformal anomaly coefficients, their 1-point functions and comment on the calculation of their string potential. These results establish surface operators as a viable approach to the characterisation of interface critical phenomena in the 3d critical $O(N)$ model. They also suggest the existence of a vaster array of surface defects yet to be discovered.

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