Anomalies and Persistent Order in the Chiral Gross-Neveu model

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Main Authors: Ciccone, Riccardo, Di Pietro, Lorenzo, Serone, Marco
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author Ciccone, Riccardo
Di Pietro, Lorenzo
Serone, Marco
author_facet Ciccone, Riccardo
Di Pietro, Lorenzo
Serone, Marco
contents We study the $2d$ chiral Gross-Neveu model at finite temperature $T$ and chemical potential $μ$. The analysis is performed by relating the theory to a $SU(N)\times U(1)$ Wess-Zumino-Witten model with appropriate levels and global identifications necessary to keep track of the fermion spin structures. At $μ=0$ we show that a certain $\mathbb{Z}_2$-valued 't Hooft anomaly forbids the system to be trivially gapped when fermions are periodic along the thermal circle for any $N$ and any $T>0$. We also study the two-point function of a certain composite fermion operator which allows us to determine the remnants for $T>0$ of the inhomogeneous chiral phase configuration found at $T=0$ for any $N$ and any $μ$. The inhomogeneous configuration decays exponentially at large distances for anti-periodic fermions while it persists for $T>0$ and any $μ$ for periodic fermions, as expected from anomaly considerations. A large $N$ analysis confirms the above findings.
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spellingShingle Anomalies and Persistent Order in the Chiral Gross-Neveu model
Ciccone, Riccardo
Di Pietro, Lorenzo
Serone, Marco
High Energy Physics - Theory
Strongly Correlated Electrons
High Energy Physics - Lattice
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
We study the $2d$ chiral Gross-Neveu model at finite temperature $T$ and chemical potential $μ$. The analysis is performed by relating the theory to a $SU(N)\times U(1)$ Wess-Zumino-Witten model with appropriate levels and global identifications necessary to keep track of the fermion spin structures. At $μ=0$ we show that a certain $\mathbb{Z}_2$-valued 't Hooft anomaly forbids the system to be trivially gapped when fermions are periodic along the thermal circle for any $N$ and any $T>0$. We also study the two-point function of a certain composite fermion operator which allows us to determine the remnants for $T>0$ of the inhomogeneous chiral phase configuration found at $T=0$ for any $N$ and any $μ$. The inhomogeneous configuration decays exponentially at large distances for anti-periodic fermions while it persists for $T>0$ and any $μ$ for periodic fermions, as expected from anomaly considerations. A large $N$ analysis confirms the above findings.
title Anomalies and Persistent Order in the Chiral Gross-Neveu model
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
Strongly Correlated Electrons
High Energy Physics - Lattice
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.13756