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Fracton infrared triangle

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-12-27 v2 Statistical Mechanics Strongly Correlated Electrons General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

In theories with conserved dipole moment, isolated charged particles (fractons) are immobile, but dipoles can move. We couple these dipoles to the fracton gauge theory and analyze the universal infrared structure. This uncovers an observable double kick memory effect which we relate to a novel dipole soft theorem. Together with their asymptotic symmetries this constitutes the first realization of an infrared triangle beyond Lorentz symmetry. This demonstrates the robustness of these IR structures and paves the way for their investigation in condensed matter systems and beyond.

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@article{arxiv.2310.16683,
  title  = {Fracton infrared triangle},
  author = {Alfredo Pérez and Stefan Prohazka and Ali Seraj},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.16683},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

8+2 pages, 2 figures; v2: Various minor improvements

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