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Charting the phase diagram of QCD$_\mathbf{3}$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-10-02 v2

Abstract

We study the phase diagram of SU(N)SU(N) gauge theory in three space-time dimensions with a Chern-Simons term at level kk, coupled to two sets of fundamental fermions with masses m1m_1 and m2m_2, respectively. The two-dimensional phase diagram that we propose shows a rich structure and widens in an interesting way previous results in the literature, to which it reduces in some limits. We present several checks of our proposal, including consistency with boson/fermion dualities. In this respect, we extensively comment on the structure of the scalar potential which is needed on the bosonic side of the duality.

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@article{arxiv.1905.01460,
  title  = {Charting the phase diagram of QCD$_\mathbf{3}$},
  author = {Riccardo Argurio and Matteo Bertolini and Francesco Mignosa and Pierluigi Niro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.01460},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

27 pages, 11 figures. v2: minor edits and comments added, version to appear in journal

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