Symmetry Breaking at All Temperatures
Noam Chai, Soumyadeep Chaudhuri, Changha Choi, Zohar Komargodski, Eliezer Rabinovici, Michael Smolkin
Abstract
We explore the existence of conformal field theories that persistently break a global symmetry at finite temperature. We identify vector models in (3-ε) spatial dimensions that have internal symmetries broken at any temperature. We study these systems in the small ε regime and in the large rank limit. The latter displays a conformal manifold and a moduli space of vacua deformed at finite temperature. We touch upon a candidate in d=2 dimensions.
Topics & Concepts
PhysicsModuli spaceHomogeneous spaceConformal mapSymmetry (geometry)Limit (mathematics)Manifold (fluid mechanics)Global symmetryConformal symmetrySpace (punctuation)Mathematical physicsConformal field theoryTheoretical physicsInfinityRank (graph theory)Symmetry breakingSpontaneous symmetry breakingQuantum mechanicsPure mathematicsGeometryCombinatoricsMathematical analysisMathematicsLinguisticsPhilosophyMechanical engineeringEngineeringBlack Holes and Theoretical PhysicsCosmology and Gravitation TheoriesQuantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions