Symmetry Breaking at All Temperatures

Noam Chai, Soumyadeep Chaudhuri, Changha Choi, Zohar Komargodski, Eliezer Rabinovici, Michael Smolkin

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Article number131603
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume125
Issue number13
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2020

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