Spontaneous conformal symmetry breaking in fishnet CFT

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2020.135922zbMATH Open1472.81222arXiv1908.04302OpenAlexW2967696453WikidataQ107030901 ScholiaQ107030901MaRDI QIDQ820394FDOQ820394

Authors: Georgios K. Karananas, M. Shaposhnikov, Vladimir A. Kazakov 

Publication date: 27 September 2021

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

Abstract: Quantum field theories with exact but spontaneously broken conformal invariance have an intriguing feature: their vacuum energy (cosmological constant) is equal to zero. Up to now, the only known ultraviolet complete theories where conformal symmetry can be spontaneously broken were associated with supersymmetry (SUSY), with the most prominent example being the $mathcalN$=4 SUSY Yang-Mills. In this Letter we show that the recently proposed conformal "fishnet" theory supports at the classical level a rich set of flat directions (moduli) along which conformal symmetry is spontaneously broken. We demonstrate that, at least perturbatively, some of these vacua survive in the full quantum theory (in the planar limit, at the leading order of $1/N_c$ expansion) without any fine tuning. The vacuum energy is equal to zero along these flat directions, providing the first non-SUSY example of a four-dimensional quantum field theory with "natural" breaking of conformal symmetry.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04302

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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