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Compensating strong coupling with large charge

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-05-24 v3

Abstract

We study some (conformal) field theories with global symmetries in the sector where the value of the global charge QQ is large. We find (as expected) that the low energy excitations of this sector are described by the general form of Goldstone's theorem in the non-relativistic regime. We also derive the unexpected result, first presented in [Hellerman et al. 2015], that the effective field theory describing such sector of fixed QQ contains effective couplings λeffλb/Qa\lambda_{\text{eff}}\sim \lambda^b /Q^{a}, where λ\lambda is the original coupling. Hence, large charge leads to weak coupling. In the last section of the paper we present an outline of how to compute anomalous dimensions of the O(n)O(n) model in this limit.

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@article{arxiv.1610.04495,
  title  = {Compensating strong coupling with large charge},
  author = {Luis Alvarez-Gaume and Orestis Loukas and Domenico Orlando and Susanne Reffert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.04495},
  year   = {2017}
}

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20 pages, 2 figures. Version accepted by JHEP

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