Emergent vortex-electron interaction from dualization

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2020.168167zbMATH Open1435.81124arXiv1912.03124OpenAlexW3015267324MaRDI QIDQ778481FDOQ778481

Shantonu Mukherjee, Amitabha Lahiri

Publication date: 2 July 2020

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the Abelian Higgs model in 3+1 dimensions with vortex lines, into which charged fermions are introduced. This could be viewed as a model of a type-II superconductor with unpaired electrons (or holes), analogous to the boson-fermion model of high-$T_c$ superconductors but one in which the bosons and fermions interact only through the electromagnetic gauge field. We investigate the dual formulation of this model, which is in terms of a massive antisymmetric tensor gauge field $B_{muu}$ mediating the interaction of the vortex lines. This field couples to the fermions through a nonlocal spin-gauge interaction term. We then calculate the quantum correction due to the fermions at one loop and show that due to the presence of this new nonlocal term a topological $BwedgeF$ interaction is induced in the effective action, leading to an increase in the mass of both the photon and the tensor gauge field. Additionally, we find a Coulomb potential between the electrons, but with a large dielectric constant generated by the one-loop effects.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.03124

zbMATH Keywords

boson-fermion modeldual field theoryhigh \(T_c\) superconductorvortex-fermion interaction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55)

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Cited In (5)

• Fundamental vortices, wall-crossing, and particle-vortex duality
• Spin gauge theory, duality and fermion pairing
• Quantizing a non-locally massive 2-form model
• Spin-flux attachment by dimensional reduction of vortices
• Fermion-induced quantum action of vortex systems

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