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Scalar, fermionic and supersymmetric field theories with subsystem symmetries in d+1 dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-04-12 v3 Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

We study various non-relativistic field theories with exotic symmetries called subsystem symmetries, which have recently attracted much attention in the context of fractons. We start with a scalar theory called ϕ\phi-theory in d+1d+1 dimensions and discuss its properties studied in literature for d3d\leq 3 such as self-duality, vacuum structure, 't Hooft anomaly, anomaly inflow and lattice regularization. Next we study a theory called chiral ϕ\phi-theory which is an analogue of a chiral boson with subsystem symmetries. Then we discuss theories including fermions with subsystem symmetries. We first construct a supersymmetric version of the ϕ\phi-theory and dropping its bosonic part leads us to a purely fermionic theory with subsystem symmetries called ψ\psi-theory. We argue that lattice regularization of the ψ\psi-theory generically suffers from an analogue of doubling problem as previously pointed out in the d=3d=3 case. We propose an analogue of Wilson fermion to avoid the ``doubling" problem. We also supersymmetrize the chiral ϕ\phi-theory and dropping the bosonic part again gives us a purely fermionic theory. We finally discuss vacuum structures of the theories with fermions and find that they are infinitely degenerate because of spontaneous breaking of subsystem symmetries.

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@article{arxiv.2212.13006,
  title  = {Scalar, fermionic and supersymmetric field theories with subsystem symmetries in d+1 dimensions},
  author = {Masazumi Honda and Taiichi Nakanishi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.13006},
  year   = {2023}
}

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33 pages, v3