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Anomalous dimensions of scalar operators in $QED_3$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-08-24 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

The infrared dynamics of 2+12+1 dimensional quantum electrodynamics (QED3_3) with a large number NN of fermion flavors is governed by an interacting CFT that can be studied in the 1/N1/N expansion. We use the 1/N1/N expansion to calculate the scaling dimensions of all the lowest three scalar operators that transform under the SU(N)SU(N) flavor symmetry as a Young diagram with two columns of not necessarily equal heights and that have vanishing topological charge. In the case of SU(N)SU(N) singlets, we study the mixing of (ψˉiψi)(ψˉjψj)(\bar \psi_i \psi^i)(\bar \psi_j \psi^j) and FμνFμνF_{\mu\nu} F^{\mu\nu}, which are the lowest dimension parity-even singlets. Our results suggest that these operators are irrelevant for all N>1N>1.

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@article{arxiv.1603.05582,
  title  = {Anomalous dimensions of scalar operators in $QED_3$},
  author = {Shai M. Chester and Silviu S. Pufu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.05582},
  year   = {2016}
}

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33 pages, 13 figures, v2 minor improvements, refs added