Dynamical stabilization of runaway potentials at finite density

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2007.02.010zbMATH Open1248.81114arXivhep-th/0609031OpenAlexW1986278943MaRDI QIDQ712990FDOQ712990

Authors: Alex Buchel, Junji Jia, V. A. Miransky 

Publication date: 18 October 2012

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

Abstract: We study four dimensional non-abelian gauge theories with classical moduli. Introducing a chemical potential for a flavor charge causes moduli to become unstable and start condensing. We show that the moduli condensation in the presence of a chemical potential generates nonabelian field strength condensates. These condensates are homogeneous but non-isotropic. The end point of the condensation process is a stable homogeneous, but non-isotropic, vacuum in which both gauge and flavor symmetries and the rotational invariance are spontaneously broken. Possible applications of this phenomenon for the gauge theory/string theory correspondence and in cosmology are briefly discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0609031

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zbMATH Keywords

four-dimensional non-abelian gauge theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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• Large \(N\) field theories, string theory and gravity
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