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We investigate and classify Fermi surface behavior for a set of fermionic modes in a family of backgrounds holographically dual to N=4 Super-Yang-Mills theory at zero temperature with two distinct chemical potentials. We numerically solve…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Oliver DeWolfe , Steven S. Gubser , Christopher Rosen

We initiate a holographic model building approach to `strange metallic' phenomenology. Our model couples a neutral Lifshitz-invariant quantum critical theory, dual to a bulk gravitational background, to a finite density of gapped probe…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-12 Sean A. Hartnoll , Joseph Polchinski , Eva Silverstein , David Tong

Three-dimensional gauge theories coupled to fermions can develop interesting nonperturbative dynamics. Here we study in detail the dynamics of $SU(N)$ gauge theories coupled to a Dirac fermion in the rank-two symmetric and antisymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-19 Changha Choi , Diego Delmastro , Jaume Gomis , Zohar Komargodski

We use the AdS/CFT correspondence to study N=4 supersymmetric SU(Nc) Yang-Mills theory, in the limits of large Nc and large 't Hooft coupling, coupled to a number Nf of massless hypermultiplet fields in the fundamental representation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-10 Andy O'Bannon

Based on the observation that a particle motion in one dimension maps to a two-dimensional motion of a charged particle in a uniform magnetic field, constrained in the lowest Landau level, we formulate a system of one-dimen- sional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Satoshi Iso , Dimitra Karabali , B. Sakita

In this paper we study the spectrum of BPS operators/states in N=2 superconformal U(N) Chern-Simons-matter theories with adjoint chiral matter fields, with and without superpotential. The superconformal indices and conjectures on the full…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Shiraz Minwalla , Prithvi Narayan , Tarun Sharma , V. Umesh , Xi Yin

The fermion representation for S = 1/2 spins is generalized to spins with arbitrary magnitudes. The symmetry properties of the representation is analyzed where we find that the particle-hole symmetry in the spinon Hilbert space of S =1/2…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-02-28 Zheng-Xin Liu , Yi Zhou , Tai-Kai Ng

The exploration of scalar field theories that exhibit Carroll and Galilei symmetries has attracted a lot of attention. In this paper, we generalize these studies to fermionic field theories and construct consistent electric and magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-17 Konstantinos Koutrolikos , Mojtaba Najafizadeh

This article provides a detailed and rigorous study of $4d$ semi-holomorphic Chern-Simons theories and their associated $2d$ integrable field theories from the homological perspective of $L_\infty$-algebras. Through the use of homotopy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-29 Marco Benini , Alexander Schenkel , Benoit Vicedo

We investigate the fermionic SU(N) Hubbard model on the two-dimensional square lattice for weak to moderate interaction strengths using one-loop renormalization group and mean-field methods. For the repulsive case U>0 at half filling and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Carsten Honerkamp , Walter Hofstetter

We construct the D=3, N=5 harmonic superspace using the SO(5)/U(1) x U(1) harmonics. Three gauge harmonic superfields satisfy the off-shell constraints of the Grassmann and harmonic analyticities. The corresponding component supermultiplet…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 B. M. Zupnik

We study correlators of the global U(1) currents in holographic models which involve N=4 SYM coupled to the finite density matter in the probe brane sector. We find the spectral density associated with the longitudinal response to be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-10-12 Mikhail Goykhman , Andrei Parnachev , Jan Zaanen

In this paper we analyze the $2+1$d conformal fixed points arising from $SU(N_c)$ Chern-Simons-matter theories with multiple flavors $N_f > 1$ in the 't Hooft large $N_c$ limit. The multi-flavor generalization of quasi-fermionic theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-08 Ofer Aharony , Ronny Frumkin , Jonathan Mehl

We study 2+1 dimensional gauge theories with a Chern-Simons term and a fermion in the adjoint representation. We apply general considerations of symmetries, anomalies, and renormalization group flows to determine the possible phases of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-25 Jaume Gomis , Zohar Komargodski , Nathan Seiberg

Symplectic gauge theories coupled to matter fields lead to symmetry enhancement phenomena that have potential applications in such diverse contexts as composite Higgs, top partial compositeness, strongly interacting dark matter, and…

Topological field theories and holomorphic field theories naturally appear in both mathematics and physics. However, there exist intriguing hybrid theories that are topological in some directions and holomorphic in others, such as twists of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Minghao Wang , Brian R. Williams

Recently, O. Aharony, O. Bergman, D. L. Jafferis and J. Maldacena (ABJM) proposed three-dimensional super Chern-Simons-matter theory, which at level k is supposed to describe the low energy limit of N M2-branes. For large N and k, but fixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-16 Changrim Ahn , P. Bozhilov

We study N=2 supersymmetric Chern-Simons Higgs models in $(2+1)$-dimensions. As we will demonstrate, an extended supersymmetric quantum mechanics algebras underlies the fermionic zero modes quantum system and the zero modes corresponding to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 V. K. Oikonomou

Motivated by Beyond the Standard Model theories of composite fermions or top partners, we propose a holographic mechanism that generates light baryonic states in a strongly coupled gauge theory. The starting point are the fermionic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Raimond Abt , Johanna Erdmenger , Nick Evans , Konstantinos S. Rigatos

In the background of a charged AdS black hole, we consider a Dirac particle endowed with an arbitrary magnetic dipole moment. For non-zero charge and dipole coupling of the bulk fermion, we find that the dual boundary theory can be plagued…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 Manuela Kulaxizi , Rakibur Rahman