Higher anomalies, higher symmetries, and cobordisms. III: QCD matter phases anew

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2020.115016MaRDI QIDQ821336zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zheyan Wan, Juven Wang

Publication date 20 September 2021

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.13514

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connective (K)-theory, cobordism (19L41) Bordism and cobordism theories and formal group laws in algebraic topology (55N22) Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Nuclear physics (81V35) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10)

Abstract: We explore QCD${}_4$ quark matter, the $mu$-T (chemical potential-temperature) phase diagram, possible 't Hooft anomalies, and topological terms, via non-perturbative tools of cobordism theory and higher anomaly matching. We focus on quarks in 3-color and 3-flavor on bi-fundamentals of SU(3), then analyze the continuous and discrete global symmetries and pay careful attention to finite group sectors. We input constraints from $T=CP$ or $CT$ time-reversal symmetries, implementing QCD on unorientable spacetimes and distinct topology. Examined phases include the high T QGP (quark-gluon plasma/liquid), the low T ChSB (chiral symmetry breaking), 2SC (2-color superconductivity) and CFL (3-color-flavor locking superconductivity) at high density. We introduce a possibly useful but only approximate higher anomaly, involving discrete 0-form axial and 1-form mixed chiral-flavor-locked center symmetries, matched by the above four QCD phases. We also enlist as much as possible, but without identifying all of, 't Hooft anomalies and topological terms relevant to Symmetry Protected/Enriched Topological states (SPTs/SETs) of gauged SU(2) or SU(3) QCD${}_d$-like matter theories in general in any spacetime dimensions $d=2,3,4,5$ via cobordism.

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