scholarly journals The Conformal Spectrum of Non-Abelian Anyons

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nima Doroud ◽  
David Tong ◽  
Carl Turner

We study the spectrum of multiple non-Abelian anyons in a harmonic trap. The system is described by Chern-Simons theory, coupled to either bosonic or fermionic non-relativistic matter, and has an SO(2,1)SO(2,1) conformal invariance. We describe a number of special properties of the spectrum, focussing on a class of protected states whose energies are dictated by their angular momentum. We show that the angular momentum of a bound state of non-Abelian anyons is determined by the quadratic Casimirs of their constituents.

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (35) ◽  
pp. 2621-2635 ◽  
Author(s):  
JUTTA KUNZ ◽  
FRANCISCO NAVARRO-LÉRIDA

Stationary black holes in five-dimensional Einstein–Maxwell–Chern–Simons theory possess surprising properties. When considering the Chern–Simons coefficient λ as a parameter, two critical values of λ appear: the supergravity value λ SG = 1, and the value λ = 2. At λ = 1, supersymmetric black holes with vanishing horizon angular velocity, but finite angular momentum exist. As λ increases beyond λ SG a rotational instability arises, and counterrotating black holes appear, whose horizon rotates in the opposite sense to the angular momentum. Thus supersymmetry is associated with the borderline between stability and instability. At λ = 2, rotating black holes with vanishing angular momentum emerge. Beyond λ = 2, black holes may possess a negative horizon mass, while their total mass is positive. Charged rotating black holes with vanishing gyromagnetic ratio appear, and black holes are no longer uniquely characterized by their global charges.


1991 ◽  
Vol 06 (06) ◽  
pp. 479-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
L.F. CUGLIANDOLO ◽  
G. LOZANO ◽  
M.V. MANÍAS ◽  
F.A. SCHAPOSNIK

We study the non-abelian Chern-Simons theory with spontaneous symmetry breaking. We find Bogomol’nyi type or self-dual equations for a particular choice of the Higgs potential; the corresponding vortex solutions for G=SU(2) carry both quantized electric charge Q= −en/2 and angular momentum J=nm2/4 (e is the fundamental charge, n is an integer associated with the Chern-Simons coefficient, and m is another integer which labels the topological sector). We propose a straightforward generalization to the SU(N) case.


1999 ◽  
Vol 09 (PR10) ◽  
pp. Pr10-223-Pr10-225
Author(s):  
S. Scheidl ◽  
B. Rosenow

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suting Zhao ◽  
Christian Northe ◽  
René Meyer

Abstract We consider symmetry-resolved entanglement entropy in AdS3/CFT2 coupled to U(1) Chern-Simons theory. We identify the holographic dual of the charged moments in the two-dimensional conformal field theory as a charged Wilson line in the bulk of AdS3, namely the Ryu-Takayanagi geodesic minimally coupled to the U(1) Chern-Simons gauge field. We identify the holonomy around the Wilson line as the Aharonov-Bohm phases which, in the two-dimensional field theory, are generated by charged U(1) vertex operators inserted at the endpoints of the entangling interval. Furthermore, we devise a new method to calculate the symmetry resolved entanglement entropy by relating the generating function for the charged moments to the amount of charge in the entangling subregion. We calculate the subregion charge from the U(1) Chern-Simons gauge field sourced by the bulk Wilson line. We use our method to derive the symmetry-resolved entanglement entropy for Poincaré patch and global AdS3, as well as for the conical defect geometries. In all three cases, the symmetry resolved entanglement entropy is determined by the length of the Ryu-Takayanagi geodesic and the Chern-Simons level k, and fulfills equipartition of entanglement. The asymptotic symmetry algebra of the bulk theory is of $$ \hat{\mathfrak{u}}{(1)}_k $$ u ̂ 1 k Kac-Moody type. Employing the $$ \hat{\mathfrak{u}}{(1)}_k $$ u ̂ 1 k Kac-Moody symmetry, we confirm our holographic results by a calculation in the dual conformal field theory.


1995 ◽  
Vol 73 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 344-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeong-Chuan Kao ◽  
Hsiang-Nan Li

We show that the two-loop contribution to the coefficient of the Chern–Simons term in the effective action of the Yang–Mills–Chern–Simons theory is infrared finite in the background field Landau gauge. We also discuss the difficulties in verifying the conjecture, due to topological considerations, that there are no more quantum corrections to the Chern–Simons term other than the well-known one-loop shift of the coefficient.


1993 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 1808-1820 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Burgess ◽  
David J. Toms ◽  
Nils Tveten

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Viraj Meruliya ◽  
Sunil Mukhi ◽  
Palash Singh

Abstract We investigate the Poincaré series approach to computing 3d gravity partition functions dual to Rational CFT. For a single genus-1 boundary, we show that for certain infinite sets of levels, the SU(2)k WZW models provide unitary examples for which the Poincaré series is a positive linear combination of two modular-invariant partition functions. This supports the interpretation that the bulk gravity theory (a topological Chern-Simons theory in this case) is dual to an average of distinct CFT’s sharing the same Kac-Moody algebra. We compute the weights of this average for all seed primaries and all relevant values of k. We then study other WZW models, notably SU(N)1 and SU(3)k, and find that each class presents rather different features. Finally we consider multiple genus-1 boundaries, where we find a class of seed functions for the Poincaré sum that reproduces both disconnected and connected contributions — the latter corresponding to analogues of 3-manifold “wormholes” — such that the expected average is correctly reproduced.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tongshuai Zhu ◽  
Huaiqiang Wang ◽  
Haijun Zhang ◽  
Dingyu Xing

AbstractAxion was postulated as an elementary particle to solve the strong charge conjugation and parity puzzle, and later axion was also considered to be a possible component of dark matter in the universe. However, the existence of axions in nature has not been confirmed. Interestingly, axions arise out of pseudoscalar fields derived from the Chern–Simons theory in condensed matter physics. In antiferromagnetic insulators, the axion field can become dynamical due to spin-wave excitations and exhibits rich exotic phenomena, such as axion polariton. However, antiferromagnetic dynamical axion insulator has yet been experimentally identified in realistic materials. Very recently, MnBi2Te4 was discovered to be an antiferromagnetic topological insulator with a quantized static axion field protected by inversion symmetry $${\mathcal{P}}$$ P and magnetic-crystalline symmetry $${\mathcal{S}}$$ S . Here, we studied MnBi2Te4 films in which both the $${\mathcal{P}}$$ P and $${\mathcal{S}}$$ S symmetries are spontaneously broken and found that substantially enhanced dynamical magnetoelectric effects could be realized through tuning the thickness of MnBi2Te4 films, temperature, or element substitutions. Our results show that thin films of MnBi2Te4 and related compounds could provide a promising material platform to experimentally study axion electrodynamics.


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