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Triangle anomalies and nonrelativistic Nambu-Goldstone modes of generalized global symmetries

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arxiv 1903.02846 v2 pith:423FWFWM submitted 2019-03-07 hep-th cond-mat.mes-hallhep-ph

Triangle anomalies and nonrelativistic Nambu-Goldstone modes of generalized global symmetries

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In massless QCD coupled to QED in an external magnetic field, a photon with the linear polarization in the direction of the external magnetic field mixes with the charge neutral pion through the triangle anomaly, leading to one gapless mode with the quadratic dispersion relation $\omega \sim k^2$ and one gapped mode. We show that this gapless mode can be interpreted as the so-called type-B Nambu-Goldstone (NG) mode associated with the spontaneous breaking of generalized global symmetries and that its presence is solely dictated by the anomalous commutator in the symmetry algebra. We also argue a possible realization of such nonrelativistic NG modes in 3-dimensional Dirac semimetals.

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