Hyperbolic lattices and two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory

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Main Authors: Shankar, G., Maciejko, Joseph
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Published: 2023
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Maciejko, Joseph
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Maciejko, Joseph
contents Hyperbolic lattices are a new type of synthetic quantum matter emulated in circuit quantum electrodynamics and electric-circuit networks, where particles coherently hop on a discrete tessellation of two-dimensional negatively curved space. While real-space methods and a reciprocal-space hyperbolic band theory have been recently proposed to analyze the energy spectra of those systems, discrepancies between the two sets of approaches remain. In this work, we reconcile those approaches by first establishing an equivalence between hyperbolic band theory and $U(N)$ topological Yang-Mills theory on higher-genus Riemann surfaces. We then show that moments of the density of states of hyperbolic tight-binding models correspond to expectation values of Wilson loops in the quantum gauge theory and become exact in the large-$N$ limit.
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spellingShingle Hyperbolic lattices and two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory
Shankar, G.
Maciejko, Joseph
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Other Condensed Matter
High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
Quantum Physics
Hyperbolic lattices are a new type of synthetic quantum matter emulated in circuit quantum electrodynamics and electric-circuit networks, where particles coherently hop on a discrete tessellation of two-dimensional negatively curved space. While real-space methods and a reciprocal-space hyperbolic band theory have been recently proposed to analyze the energy spectra of those systems, discrepancies between the two sets of approaches remain. In this work, we reconcile those approaches by first establishing an equivalence between hyperbolic band theory and $U(N)$ topological Yang-Mills theory on higher-genus Riemann surfaces. We then show that moments of the density of states of hyperbolic tight-binding models correspond to expectation values of Wilson loops in the quantum gauge theory and become exact in the large-$N$ limit.
title Hyperbolic lattices and two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Other Condensed Matter
High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03857