A Partially Massless Superconductor
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| author | Hinterbichler, Kurt Joyce, Austin |
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| contents | We describe a Higgs mechanism for the partially massless graviton. In order to do so, we first construct a covariant fracton-like effective field theory on de Sitter space that linearly realizes a dipolar shift symmetry. The global symmetry of this theory can be gauged by coupling it to a partially massless spin-2 gauge field. When the fractonic matter condenses, the dipole symmetry is spontaneously broken, the resulting Goldstone mode is a galileon and the partially massless graviton combines with this mode and becomes fully massive. At long distances, the phenomenology of this theory is captured by a quasi-topological field theory and displays many features analogous to those of the superconducting phase in electromagnetism, including gapless edge modes and persistent currents. We also describe the generalization to higher spins. |
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| spellingShingle | A Partially Massless Superconductor Hinterbichler, Kurt Joyce, Austin High Energy Physics - Theory Superconductivity General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology We describe a Higgs mechanism for the partially massless graviton. In order to do so, we first construct a covariant fracton-like effective field theory on de Sitter space that linearly realizes a dipolar shift symmetry. The global symmetry of this theory can be gauged by coupling it to a partially massless spin-2 gauge field. When the fractonic matter condenses, the dipole symmetry is spontaneously broken, the resulting Goldstone mode is a galileon and the partially massless graviton combines with this mode and becomes fully massive. At long distances, the phenomenology of this theory is captured by a quasi-topological field theory and displays many features analogous to those of the superconducting phase in electromagnetism, including gapless edge modes and persistent currents. We also describe the generalization to higher spins. |
| title | A Partially Massless Superconductor |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Theory Superconductivity General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15932 |