Fractons, symmetric gauge fields and geometry
| Autor: | Francisco Peña Benítez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
High Energy Physics - Theory
Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el) Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) High Energy Physics::Lattice General Physics and Astronomy FOS: Physical sciences General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology |
| Zdroj: | Physical Review Research |
| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.2107.13884 |
| Popis: | Gapless fracton phases are characterized by the conservation of certain charges and their higher moments. These charges generically couple to higher rank gauge fields. In this paper we study systems conserving charge and dipole moment, and construct the corresponding gauge fields propagating in arbitrary curved backgrounds. The relation between the symmetries of these class of systems and spacetime transformations is discussed. In fact, we argue that higher rank symmetric gauge theories are closer to gravitational fields than to a standard gauge theory. Comment: 7 pages, discussion in some sections has been extended. Published version |
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