Flag manifold sigma models from SU(n) chains

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2020.115156zbMATH Open1479.82029arXiv2007.01912OpenAlexW3038469441MaRDI QIDQ822294FDOQ822294

Authors: Kyle Wamer, Ian Affleck 

Publication date: 21 September 2021

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

Abstract: One dimensional SU($n$) chains with the same irreducible representation $mathcalR$ at each site are considered. We determine which $mathcalR$ admit low-energy mappings to a $extSU(n)/[extU(1){]}^{n-1}$ flag manifold sigma model, and calculate the topological angles for such theories. Generically, these models will have fields with both linear and quadratic dispersion relations; for each $mathcalR$, we determine how many fields of each dispersion type there are. Finally, for purely linearly-dispersing theories, we list the irreducible representations that also possess a $mathbb{Z}_n$ symmetry that acts transitively on the $extSU(n)/[extU(1){]}^{n-1}$ fields. Such SU($n$) chains have an 't Hooft anomaly in certain cases, allowing for a generalization of Haldane's conjecture to these novel representations. In particular, for even $n$ and for representations whose Young tableaux have two rows, of lengths $p_1$ and $p_2$ satisfying $p_{1}ot=p_2$, we predict a gapless ground state when $p_1+p_2$ is coprime with $n$. Otherwise, we predict a gapped ground state that necessarily has spontaneously broken symmetry if $p_1+p_2$ is not a multiple of $n$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01912

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zbMATH Keywords

sigma model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Statistical mechanics of magnetic materials (82D40)

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