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Hohenberg-Mermin-Wagner-type theorems and dipole symmetry

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2022-12-28 v2 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study the possibility of spontaneous symmetry breaking in systems with both charge and dipole symmetries. For dd-dimensional systems at a positive temperature, we show that charge symmetry cannot be spontaneously broken for d4d\leq 4, while dipole symmetry cannot be spontaneously broken for d2d\leq 2. For T=0T=0, we show that charge symmetry cannot be spontaneously broken for d2d\leq 2 if the compressibility is finite. We also show that continuum systems with a dipole symmetry have infinite inertial mass density.

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@article{arxiv.2208.09056,
  title  = {Hohenberg-Mermin-Wagner-type theorems and dipole symmetry},
  author = {Anton Kapustin and Lev Spodyneiko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.09056},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Reworked introduction and added references