Quadrupole gauge theory: anti-Higgs mechanism and elastic dual
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| author | Głódkowski, Aleksander Matus, Paweł Peña-Benítez, Francisco Tsaloukidis, Lazaros |
| author_facet | Głódkowski, Aleksander Matus, Paweł Peña-Benítez, Francisco Tsaloukidis, Lazaros |
| contents | Motivated by the duality between elasticity and fracton gauge theory, we study an extension of the gauge group that includes the quadrupole moment. Remarkably, we find that spontaneous breaking of the quadrupole symmetry increases the number of massless excitations. This result appears to challenge the well-established paradigm, according to which gauge fields acquire mass through the Higgs mechanism, and the would-be Goldstone bosons are rendered massive. We refer to this phenomenon as the anti-Higgs mechanism. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the quadrupole gauge theory is dual to an exotic class of elastic systems, which we dub incompressible crystals. The anti-Higgs mechanism in the dual theory corresponds to a phase transition from the incompressible crystal state to an ordinary (compressible) solid. |
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| spellingShingle | Quadrupole gauge theory: anti-Higgs mechanism and elastic dual Głódkowski, Aleksander Matus, Paweł Peña-Benítez, Francisco Tsaloukidis, Lazaros Strongly Correlated Electrons Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Theory Motivated by the duality between elasticity and fracton gauge theory, we study an extension of the gauge group that includes the quadrupole moment. Remarkably, we find that spontaneous breaking of the quadrupole symmetry increases the number of massless excitations. This result appears to challenge the well-established paradigm, according to which gauge fields acquire mass through the Higgs mechanism, and the would-be Goldstone bosons are rendered massive. We refer to this phenomenon as the anti-Higgs mechanism. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the quadrupole gauge theory is dual to an exotic class of elastic systems, which we dub incompressible crystals. The anti-Higgs mechanism in the dual theory corresponds to a phase transition from the incompressible crystal state to an ordinary (compressible) solid. |
| title | Quadrupole gauge theory: anti-Higgs mechanism and elastic dual |
| topic | Strongly Correlated Electrons Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.19350 |