Planons and their Carroll-Galilei symmetries

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Hauptverfasser: Figueroa-O'Farrill, José, Pekar, Simon, Pérez, Alfredo, Prohazka, Stefan
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author Figueroa-O'Farrill, José
Pekar, Simon
Pérez, Alfredo
Prohazka, Stefan
author_facet Figueroa-O'Farrill, José
Pekar, Simon
Pérez, Alfredo
Prohazka, Stefan
contents We study the dynamics of planons, particles whose mobility is restricted to a plane, through the classification of coadjoint orbits and unitary irreducible representations of the centrally extended planon group. Planons are closely related to Galilei/Bargmann symmetries and, remarkably, the often-ignored massless coadjoint orbits of the Galilei group play a central rôle in their description. We thereby provide a nontrivial physical interpretation of these orbits. We further construct classical and quantum dipoles as bound states of monopoles, where the restricted planar motion arises from a novel mixed Carroll-Galilei symmetry. We also argue that the simplest and already experimentally realised systems with Carroll symmetry are in crystals.
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spellingShingle Planons and their Carroll-Galilei symmetries
Figueroa-O'Farrill, José
Pekar, Simon
Pérez, Alfredo
Prohazka, Stefan
High Energy Physics - Theory
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Representation Theory
We study the dynamics of planons, particles whose mobility is restricted to a plane, through the classification of coadjoint orbits and unitary irreducible representations of the centrally extended planon group. Planons are closely related to Galilei/Bargmann symmetries and, remarkably, the often-ignored massless coadjoint orbits of the Galilei group play a central rôle in their description. We thereby provide a nontrivial physical interpretation of these orbits. We further construct classical and quantum dipoles as bound states of monopoles, where the restricted planar motion arises from a novel mixed Carroll-Galilei symmetry. We also argue that the simplest and already experimentally realised systems with Carroll symmetry are in crystals.
title Planons and their Carroll-Galilei symmetries
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Representation Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08390