Topological axion electrodynamics and 4-group symmetry

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2021.136762MaRDI QIDQ824191zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yoshimasa Hidaka, Muneto Nitta, Ryo Yokokura

Publication date 14 December 2021

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.08753

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25)

Abstract: We study higher-form symmetries and a higher group in the low energy limit of a $(3+1)$-dimensional axion electrodynamics with a massive axion and a massive photon. A topological field theory describing topological excitations with the axion-photon coupling, which we call a topological axion electrodynamics, is obtained in the low energy limit. Higher-form symmetries of the topological axion electrodynamics are specified by equations of motion and Bianchi identities. We find that there are induced anyons on the intersections of symmetry generators. By a link of worldlines of the anyons, we show that the worldvolume of an axionic domain wall is topologically ordered. We further specify the underlying mathematical structure elegantly describing all salient features of the theory to be a 4-group.

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