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We argue that a close analog of the axial-current anomaly of quantum field theories with fermions occurs in the classical Euler fluid. The conservation of the axial curre [...]
02 February 2022 |
Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics |
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The two-dimensional Gross-Neveu model is anticipated to undergo a crystalline phase transition at high baryon charge densities. This conclusion is drawn from the mean-fie [...]
03 September 2024 |
Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics |
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We explore generalized global symmetries in theories of physics beyond the standard model. Theories of $Z'$ bosons generically contain “noninvertible” chiral symmetri [...]
21 August 2024 |
Enrico Fermi Institute; Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics |
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The approach to equilibrium in interacting classical and quantum systems is a challenging problem of both theoretical and experimental interest. One useful organizing pri [...]
06 August 2024 |
Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics |
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Materials exhibiting a significant shift current response could potentially outperform conventional solar cell materials. The myriad of factors governing shift-current re [...]
20 July 2024 |
Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics |
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A muonium hydride molecule is a bound state of muonium and hydrogen atoms. It has half the mass of a parahydrogen molecule and very similar electronic properties in its g [...]
10 May 2021 |
Enrico Fermi Institute; Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics; Physics |
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We calculate logarithmic negativity, a quantum entanglement measure for mixed quantum states, in quantum error-correcting codes and find it to equal the minimal cross sec [...]
28 May 2019 |
Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics |
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We discuss the cosmological implications of the string swampland conjectures for late-time cosmology, and test them against a wide range of state of the art cosmological [...]
18 April 2019 |
Astronomy and Astrophysics; Enrico Fermi Institute; Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics |
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We consider fine-grained probes of the entanglement structure of two-dimensional conformal field theories deformed by the irrelevant double-trace operator $T\overline{T}$ [...]
07 August 2020 |
Enrico Fermi Institute; Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics |
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We construct a solvable deformation of two-dimensional theories with (2, 2) supersymmetry using an irrelevant operator which is a bilinear in the supercurrents. This supe [...]
07 January 2020 |
Enrico Fermi Institute; Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics; Physics |
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We discuss an isomorphism between the possible anomalies of $(d+1)$-dimensional quantum field theories with $Z_2$ unitary global symmetry, and those of d-dimensional quan [...]
27 August 2020 |
Enrico Fermi Institute; Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics; Physics |
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We prove that in $(3+1)d$ quantum field theories with $Z_N$ symmetry, certain anomalies forbid a symmetry-preserving vacuum state with a gapped spectrum. In particular, t [...]
13 July 2020 |
Enrico Fermi Institute; Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics |
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We use numerical methods to obtain moduli-dependent Calabi-Yau metrics, and from them, the moduli-dependent massive tower of Kaluza-Klein states for the one-parameter fam [...]
28 May 2021 |
Enrico Fermi Institute; Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics |
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For any quantum system invariant under gauging a higher-form global symmetry, we construct a noninvertible topological defect by gauging in only half of the spacetime. Th [...]
2022 |
Enrico Fermi Institute; Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics |
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We investigate a concrete scenario of a light scalar with a mass around 1 MeV which can be connected to the origin of neutrino masses and simultaneously survive current b [...]
14 March 2022 |
Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics; Physics |
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We developed the spacetime-covariant Hamilton principle for barotropic flows of a perfect fluid in the external axial-vector potential conjugate to the helicity current. [...]
15 November 2022 |
Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics |
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We explore the holographic proposal involving spacetimes with linear dilaton asymptotics in three dimensions from a gravity perspective. The holographic dual shares some [...]
21 June 2023 |
Enrico Fermi Institute; Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics |
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Due to an accidentally large s-wave scattering length, in a relatively wide range of energy, neutrons are approximately described by the nonrelativistic conformal field t [...]
02 January 2024 |
Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics |
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We describe the interplay between electric-magnetic duality and higher symmetry in Maxwell theory. When the fine structure constant is rational, the theory admits noninve [...]
13 May 2024 |
Enrico Fermi Institute; Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics |
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We study the relaxation dynamics of the spin polarization of baryons (nucleon and Λ baryon), in a thermal pion gas as a simple model of the hadronic phase of the QCD pla [...]
16 May 2024 |
Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics |
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To describe dynamics of bulk and fluctuations near the QCD critical point we develop general relativistic fluctuation formalism for a fluid carrying baryon charge. Feedba [...]
01 September 2020 |
Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics |
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We consider the time-reversal odd dynamics of the bilayer graphene at low energies in the quantum Hall regime. A generating functional for the effective action that captu [...]
01 February 2021 |
Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics |
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The study of topological superconductivity is largely based on the analysis of mean-field Hamiltonians that violate particle number conservation and have only short-range [...]
26 August 2020 |
Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics |
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A topological mechanism is a zero-elastic-energy deformation of a mechanical structure that is robust against smooth changes in system parameters. Here, we map the nonlin [...]
19 October 2020 |
Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics; Physics |
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We reconsider the composite fermion theory of general Jain sequences with filling factor ν = N / ( 4 N ± 1 ) . We show that Goldman and Fradkin's proposal of a Dirac c [...]
07 September 2021 |
Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics |
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