Theta-vacuum and large N limit in CP^N-1 models

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2010.11.004zbMATH Open1207.81055arXiv1009.2629OpenAlexW2171043101WikidataQ62560990 ScholiaQ62560990MaRDI QIDQ632097FDOQ632097

Authors: Miguel Aguado, Manuel Asorey 

Publication date: 14 March 2011

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

Abstract: The theta dependence of the vacuum energy density in CP^{N-1} models is re-analysed in the semiclassical approach, the 1/N expansion and arguments based on the nodal structure of vacuum wavefunctionals. The 1/N expansion is shown not to be in contradiction with instanton physics at finite (spacetime) volume V. The interplay of large volume V and large N parameter gives rise to two regimes with different theta dependence, one behaving as a dilute instanton gas and the other dominated by the traditional large N picture, where instantons reappear as resonances of the one-loop effective action, even in the absence of regular instantonic solutions. The realms of the two regimes are given in terms of the mass gap m by m^2 V << N and m^2 V >> N, respectively. The small volume regime m^2 V << N is relevant for physical effects associated to the physics of the boundary, like the leading role of edge states in the quantum Hall effect, which, however, do not play any role in the thermodynamic limit at large N. Depending on the order in which the limits N -> infty and V -> infty are taken, two different theories are obtained; this is the hallmark of a phase transition at 1/N = 0.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.2629

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zbMATH Keywords

instantonslarge \(N\) limittheta vacuum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Theta functions and abelian varieties (14K25) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Continuum limits in quantum field theory (81T27)

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