Vortices in fracton type gauge theories

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2020.135978MaRDI QIDQ820447zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gustavo S. Lozano, F. A. Schaposnik

Publication date 27 September 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.00112

zbMATH Keywords

gauge theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Statistical mechanics of solids (82D20)

Abstract: We consider a vector gauge theory in 2 + 1 dimensions of the type recently proposed by Radzihovsky and Hermele [1] to describe fracton phases of matter. The theory has U(1)XU(1) vector gauge fields coupled to an additional vector field with a non conventional gauge symmetry. We added to the theory scalar matter in order to break the gauge symmetry. We analyze non trivial configurations by reducing the field equations to first order self dual (BPS) equations which we solved numerically. We have found vortex solutions for the gauge fields which in turn generate for the extra vector field non-trivial configurations that can be associated to magnetic dipoles.

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