128 research outputs found
Generalized Gradient Flow Equation and Its Application to Super Yang-Mills Theory
We generalize the gradient flow equation for field theories with nonlinearly
realized symmetry. Applying the formalism to super Yang-Mills theory, we
construct a supersymmetric extension of the gradient flow equation. It can be
shown that the super gauge symmetry is preserved in the gradient flow.
Furthermore, choosing an appropriate modification term to damp the gauge
degrees of freedom, we obtain a gradient flow equation which is closed within
the Wess-Zumino gauge.Comment: 35 pages, v2: typos corrected and references added, v3: published
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Bosonization approach for "atomic collapse" in graphene
We study quantum electrodynamics with 2+1 dimensional massless Dirac fermion
around a Coulomb impurity. Around a large charge with atomic number Z > 137,
the QED vacuum is expected to collapse due to the strong Coulombic force. While
the relativistic quantum mechanics fails to make reliable predictions for the
fate of the vacuum, the heavy ion collision experiment also does not give clear
understanding of this system. Recently, the "atomic collapse" resonances were
observed on graphene where an artificial nuclei can be made. In this paper, we
present our nonperturbative study of the vacuum structure of the quasiparticles
in graphene with a charge impurity which contains multi-body effect using
bosonization method.Comment: 18 pages, 7 figure
Intra-cone transition effect to magnetoconductivity in Dirac semimetal
We study the transport of the fermions with a small mass in the presence of
Coulomb impurities, which could be realized in slightly distorted Dirac
semimetals. Using the semiclassical Boltzmann equation, we derive the
relaxation times for two kinds of intra-cone transition process. One is due to
the effect of mass, and the other is due to the excited states in Landau levels
under the weaker magnetic field. Hence we derive the mass dependence and the
magnetic field dependence of the longitudinal magnetoconductivity in the
presence of parallel electric and magnetic fields.Comment: 20 pages, 5 figure
Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index theorem for domain-wall fermion Dirac operator
Recently, the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer(APS) index theorem attracts attention for
understanding physics on the surface of materials in topological phases.
Although it is widely applied to physics, the mathematical set-up in the
original APS index theorem is too abstract and general (allowing non-trivial
metric and so on) and also the connection between the APS boundary condition
and the physical boundary condition on the surface of topological material is
unclear. For this reason, in contrast to the Atiyah-Singer index theorem,
derivation of the APS index theorem in physics language is still missing. In
this talk, we attempt to reformulate the APS index in a "physicist-friendly"
way, similar to the Fujikawa method on closed manifolds, for our familiar
domain-wall fermion Dirac operator in a flat Euclidean space. We find that the
APS index is naturally embedded in the determinant of domain-wall fermions,
representing the so-called anomaly descent equations.Comment: 8 pages, Proceedings of the 35th annual International Symposium on
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