Broken spacetime symmetries and elastic variables
High Energy Physics - Theory
2014-07-07 v2 Other Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We discuss spontaneous breaking of continuum symmetries, whose generators do explicitly depend on the spacetime coordinates. We clarify the relation between broken symmetries and elastic variables at both zero and finite temperatures, and/or finite densities, and show the general counting rule that is model-independently determined by the symmetry breaking pattern. We apply it to three intriguing examples: rotational, conformal, and gauge symmetries.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1312.0008,
title = {Broken spacetime symmetries and elastic variables},
author = {Tomoya Hayata and Yoshimasa Hidaka},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.0008},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
6 pages, 1 figure; some discussions added in Sec. 4, published version