English

Charged and neutral fixed points in the O(N)+O(N)-model with Abelian gauge fields

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-07-22 v2 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

In the Abelian-Higgs model, or Ginzburg-Landau model of superconductivity, the existence of an infrared stable charged fixed point ensures that there is a parameter range where the superconducting phase transition is second order, as opposed to fluctuation-induced first order as one would infer from the Coleman-Weinberg mechanism. We study the charged and neutral fixed points of a two-field generalization of the Abelian-Higgs model, where two N-component fields are coupled to two gauge fields and to each other, using the functional renormalization group. Focusing mostly on three dimensions, in the neutral case, this is a model for two-component Bose-Einstein condensation, and we confirm the fixed-point structure established in earlier works using different methods. The charged model is a dual theory of two-dimensional dislocation-mediated quantum melting. We find the existence of three charged fixed points for all N>2, while there are additional fixed points for N=2.

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@article{arxiv.1903.05331,
  title  = {Charged and neutral fixed points in the O(N)+O(N)-model with Abelian gauge fields},
  author = {Aron J. Beekman and Gergely Fejős},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.05331},
  year   = {2019}
}

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RevTeX. 14 pages, 4 figures. Matches published version