Flavor Broken QCD$_3$ at Large N

Andrew Baumgartner

Flavor Broken QCD$_3$ at Large N

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-05-26 v1

Authors: Andrew Baumgartner

Abstract

We examine the vacuum structure of QCD $_3$ with flavor group $U(f)\times U(N_f-f)$ in the limit $N\to\infty$ with $g^2N=$ fixed. We find that, generically, the resolution of critical points into a series of first order pahse transitions persists at special locations in the phase diagram. In particular, the number of Grassmannians that one traverses and their locations in the phase diagram is a function of $f$ .

Keywords

flavor physics

Cite

@article{arxiv.2005.11339,
  title  = {Flavor Broken QCD$_3$ at Large N},
  author = {Andrew Baumgartner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.11339},
  year   = {2020}
}