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Pauli-Term-Induced Fixed Points in $d$-dimensional QED

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-03-06 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We explore the fixed-point structure of QED-like theories upon the inclusion of a Pauli spin-field coupling. We concentrate on the fate of UV-stable fixed points recently discovered in d=4d=4 spacetime dimensions upon generalizations to lower as well as higher dimensions for an arbitrary number of fermion flavors NfN_\mathrm{f}. As an overall trend, we observe that going away from d=4d=4 dimensions and increasing the flavor number tends to destabilize the non-Gaussian fixed points discovered in four spacetime dimensions. A notable exception is a non-Gaussian fixed point at finite Pauli spin-field coupling but vanishing gauge coupling, which also remains stable down to d=3d=3 dimensions and for small flavor numbers. This includes also the range of degrees of freedom used in effective theories of layered condensed-matter systems. As an application, we construct renormalization group trajectories that emanate from the non-Gaussian fixed point and approach a long-range regime in the conventional QED3{}_3 universality class that is governed by the interacting (quasi) fixed point in the gauge coupling.

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@article{arxiv.2210.11927,
  title  = {Pauli-Term-Induced Fixed Points in $d$-dimensional QED},
  author = {Holger Gies and Kevin K. K. Tam and Jobst Ziebell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.11927},
  year   = {2024}
}

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11 pages, 7 figures

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