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In the pseudo-euclidean metrics Chern-Simons gauge theory in the infrared region is found to be associated with dissipative dynamics. In the infrared limit the Lagrangian of 2+1 dimensional pseudo-euclidean topologically massive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Blasone , E. Graziano , O. K. Pashaev , G. Vitiello

We construct a Chern-Simons gauge theory for dg Lie and L-infinity algebras on any one-dimensional manifold and quantize this theory using the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism and Costello's renormalization techniques. Koszul duality and…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Ryan Grady , Owen Gwilliam

Chamseddine and Mukhanov showed that gravity and gauge theories could be unified in one geometric construction provided that a metricity condition is imposed on the vielbein. In this paper we are going to show that by enlarging the gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Chireen A. Saghir , Laurence W. Shamseddine

Motivated by some previously known facts from mathematical and physics literature, we explore certain relations between 3-dimensional topological gauge theories with continuous and finite gauge groups, commonly known as Chern-Simons (CS)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-15 Thomas Nicosanti , Pavel Putrov , Johann Quenta-Raygada

We study the mechanism of topological mass-generation for 3d Chern-Simons gauge theories and propose a brand-new Topological Equivalence Theorem to connect scattering amplitudes of the physical gauge boson states to that of the transverse…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-21 Yan-Feng Hang , Hong-Jian He , Cong Shen

Chern-Simons (CS) invariant is a fundamental topological invariant describing the topological invariance of 3D space based on the Chern-Simons field theory. To date, direct measurement of the CS invariant in a physical system remains…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-09-09 Chang-Rui Yi , Jinlong Yu , Huan Yuan , Xin Chen , Jia-Yu Guo , Jinyi Zhang , Shuai Chen , Jian-Wei Pan

Gauge theories form the foundation of modern physics, with applications ranging from elementary particle physics and early-universe cosmology to condensed matter systems. We perform quantum simulations of the unitary dynamics of a U(1)…

Gauge field theories play a central role in modern physics and are at the heart of the Standard Model of elementary particles and interactions. Despite significant progress in applying classical computational techniques to simulate gauge…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 Zohreh Davoudi , Mohammad Hafezi , Christopher Monroe , Guido Pagano , Alireza Seif , Andrew Shaw

We study the quantum mechanics of a system of topologically interacting particles in 2+1 dimensions, which is described by coupling the particles to a Chern-Simons gauge field of an inhomogeneous group. Analysis of the phase space shows…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 F. A. Bais , N. M. Muller

We compute directly the entanglement entropy of spatial regions in Chern-Simons gauge theories in 2+1 dimensions using surgery. We use these results to determine the universal topological piece of the entanglement entropy for Abelian and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-15 Shiying Dong , Eduardo Fradkin , Robert G. Leigh , Sean Nowling

We investigate how topological entanglement of Chern-Simons theory is captured in a string theoretic realization. Our explorations are motivated by a desire to understand how quantum entanglement of low energy open string degrees of freedom…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Veronika E. Hubeny , Roji Pius , Mukund Rangamani

In this paper we investigate the canonical quantization of a non-Abelian topologically massive Chern-Simons theory in which the gauge fields are minimally coupled to a multiplet of scalar fields in such a way that the gauge symmetry is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Lusheng Chen , Gerald Dunne , Kurt Haller , Edwin Lim-Lombridas

We construct invertible field theories generalizing abelian prequantum spin Chern-Simons theory to manifolds of dimension 4k+3 endowed with a Wu structure of degree 2k+2. After analysing the anomalies of a certain discrete symmetry, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-13 Samuel Monnier

In this talk some recent results in the quantization of Chern-Simons field theories in the Coulomb gauge will be presented. In the first part, the consistency of the Chern-Simons field theories in this gauge is proven using the Dirac's…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Franco Ferrari , Ignazio Lazzizzera

We construct a family of two-dimensional topological stabilizer codes on continuous variable (CV) degrees of freedom, which generalize homological rotor codes and the toric-GKP code. Our topological codes are built using the concept of…

In this paper we develop a gapless theory of BEC which can be applied to both trapped and homogeneous gases at zero and finite temperature. The many-body Hamiltonian for the system is written in a form which is approximately quadratic with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. A. Morgan

Quantum simulations of High Energy Physics, and especially of gauge theories, is an emerging and exciting direction in quantum simulations. However, simulations of such theories, compared to simulations of condensed matter physics, must…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-29 Erez Zohar , J. Ignacio Cirac , Benni Reznik

The recently proposed physical projector approach to the quantisation of gauge invariant systems is applied to the U(1) Chern-Simons theory in 2+1 dimensions as one of the simplest examples of a topological quantum field theory. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Jan Govaerts , Bernadette Deschepper

In an abelian topologically massive gauge theory, any eigenstate of the Hamiltonian can be decomposed into a factor describing massive propagating gauge bosons and a Chern-Simons wave function describing a set of nonpropagating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-28 M. Asorey , S. Carlip , F. Falceto

3-dimensional BF theory with gauge group $G$ (= Chern-Simons theory with non-compact gauge group $TG$) is a deceptively simple yet subtle topological gauge theory. Formally, its partition function is a sum/integral over the moduli space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-17 Matthias Blau , Mbambu Kakona , George Thompson