Charting the phase diagram of QCD$_\mathbf{3}$
High Energy Physics - Theory
2019-10-02 v2
Abstract
We study the phase diagram of gauge theory in three space-time dimensions with a Chern-Simons term at level , coupled to two sets of fundamental fermions with masses and , 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.
Cite
@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