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Unpaired Weyl fermion on an axion string in a finite lattice

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Pith's one-line read A singly connected vortex loop built from crossed domain walls on a finite periodic lattice realizes one unpaired Weyl fermion; the N = 28 spectrum shows a right-handed branch below energy 0.6.

desk verdict Clever vortex-loop construction for a single Weyl fermion on a finite lattice, but the evidence is one N=28 spectrum without chirality measurement or finite-size scaling. read the letter →

arxiv 2506.04324 v1 pith:Y2E7G7YS submitted 2025-06-04 hep-th hep-latnucl-th

Jonathan D. Kroth , Srimoyee Sen This is my paper
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keywords WeylfermionlatticechiralfermionsaxionstringdomainwallvortexloopfinitegaugetheoryWilson
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The reading

This paper aims to show that a finite lattice with periodic boundary conditions can host a single massless Weyl fermion, a mode that the standard no-go result forbids for an ordinary local lattice fermion. The construction starts from a (2n+2)-dimensional Wilson fermion whose position-dependent complex mass has a winding phase around a string defect, the lattice version of a continuum axion string. Because a periodic box forces every domain wall to appear with an anti-wall, the naive crossed-wall profile produces two vortices and two anti-vortices; the paper reshapes the walls so the defects merge into a single connected loop. Diagonalizing the resulting Hamiltonian for n=1 on an N=28 lattice, the authors find one right-handed, Weyl-like branch below energy about 0.6, with the corresponding states localized on the loop, and a left-handed version on the flipped-sign anti-loop. If this holds in the continuum limit, the construction gives a concrete route to lattice chiral gauge theories and to lattice-regulated chiral fermions on cosmic strings.

What carries the argument

The central object is a complex mass defect $\phi=\phi_1+i\phi_2$ formed by two crossed domain walls, whose crossing points are the string defects or vortices. On a periodic lattice each wall is forced to appear with an anti-wall, so the naive profile creates two vortices and two anti-vortices; the argument's key modification is $\phi_1=1+h(x_4)P(x_2,x_3)$, $\phi_2=\epsilon(x_4)-2\Theta(x_4-L/2)$. The function $P$ first confines the $\phi_1$ wall to a finite interval of $x_3$, leaving a single vortex-anti-vortex pair that realizes one massless Dirac fermion, and then is changed to Eq. (23), which makes the interval collapse as $|x_2-L/2|$ grows so the two strings join into one loop. Since translation invariance in $x_2$ is broken, states are labeled by the angular-momentum operator $J^4$ rather than by momentum, and the chirality matrix $\Gamma_{\rm str}=\Gamma_1\Gamma_2$ is used to identify the Weyl nature of the edge modes. The Wilson terms in $H_{\rm str}$ keep doubler modes at the cutoff, and the singly connected topology of the loop rather than two disconnected strings is what leaves a single chirality at low energy.

What would settle it

A finite-size scaling study of the smallest gap on the Weyl branch for $N=16,20,24,28,32$ would settle the claim: if the gap does not approach zero, or if the expectation value of $\Gamma_{\rm str}$ on the branch states is not close to $+1$, the branch is a finite-lattice artifact and the single Weyl fermion is not realized.

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Core claim

The paper's central claim is that the low-energy spectrum of a Wilson fermion in a background of crossed domain walls on a finite $N^3$ lattice with periodic boundary conditions can contain exactly one unpaired Weyl fermion. The naive string profile on a periodic box always produces two vortices and two anti-vortices, hence two massless Dirac fermions; the authors modify the scalar mass profile so that one vortex and one anti-vortex survive, which by itself realizes a single massless Dirac fermion. They then make the separation between these two strings depend on $x_2$, shrinking to zero away from the $x_2=L/2$ plane, so the pair reconnects into one singly connected vortex loop, Eq. (23). For $N=28$, the low-lying spectrum of the Hamiltonian $H_{\rm str}$ shows a right-handed, Weyl-like dispersion for $E\lesssim 0.6$ whose states are localized along the loop core; flipping the sign of one of the masses gives an anti-vortex loop with a negative-chirality Weyl fermion. The paper interprets this as the finite-lattice realization of the continuum axion-string zero mode and proposes that stacks of coincident vortex and anti-vortex loops can supply the chiral fermion content needed for a lattice chiral gauge theory.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing assumption is that the $N=28$ spectrum is representative of the low-energy limit: the Weyl-like branch below $E\approx 0.6$ must stay gapless and of a single chirality as the lattice grows, and the paper offers no finite-size scaling or direct measurement of the chirality eigenvalue to confirm this.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • On a finite periodic lattice, the modified string defect realizes a single massless Dirac fermion, which the unmodified crossed-wall string cannot do.
  • The singly connected vortex loop realizes a single unpaired right-handed Weyl fermion, and flipping one mass sign turns it into a left-handed Weyl fermion on an anti-vortex loop.
  • The authors give the construction in a Hamiltonian, Minkowski-space formulation for $n=1$ and state that extending it to Euclidean spacetime and to $n>1$ is straightforward.
  • Several coincident vortex and anti-vortex loops can be used to engineer the chiral fermion content of a desired lattice chiral gauge theory, with gauge fields confined to the defect and continued into the bulk by the higher-dimensional gauge-field equations.
  • Because lattice axion strings modify anomaly inflow and the Goldstone-Wilczek current relative to continuum strings, the construction can change the phenomenology of superconducting cosmic strings.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The $N=28$ spectra do not by themselves rule out a finite-size artifact; a decisive check is to vary the lattice size and confirm that the Weyl-point gap closes as a power of $1/N$ while every state on the branch has $\Gamma_{\rm str}=+1$.
  • If the branch is genuinely chiral, anomaly inflow predicts that a background gauge field with a net instanton number on the loop should induce a zero mode; verifying this on the lattice would tie the construction to the continuum index theorem.
  • The proposed gauge-theory application depends on a consistent bulk continuation of the defect gauge field; testing that the low-energy fermion determinant is independent of that continuation would be a natural next step.
  • The claimed Euclidean extension could be checked directly by constructing the transfer matrix from the Euclidean path integral and confirming that the same chiral branch survives with the same chirality assignment.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes a finite-lattice realization of a single unpaired Weyl fermion using an axion-string-type defect. It writes a four-dimensional Wilson-Dirac Hamiltonian (Eq. 9) with spatially varying scalar and pseudoscalar mass terms. For n=1, the authors first use crossed domain walls with a profile (Eqs. 18-20) that preserves translation invariance in x2 and obtain a low-energy spectrum (Fig. 3) consisting of a single massless Dirac fermion localized on a vortex/anti-vortex pair. They then replace the profile P(x3) with P(x2,x3) (Eq. 23), which makes the vortex and anti-vortex merge into a single "vortex loop." Diagonalizing the Hamiltonian on a 28^3 periodic lattice, they observe a linear branch below E≈0.6 in a plot of energy versus the expectation value of the angular momentum J4 (Fig. 5) and interpret it as a single right-handed Weyl fermion localized on the loop (Figs. 6 and 7). The paper concludes that the construction can be used as a basis for lattice chiral gauge theories and that Euclidean and higher-n generalizations are straightforward.

Significance. Subject to verification, this would be an important conceptual step: it extends the Kaplan-Sen finite-lattice Weyl construction from domain walls to axion strings and provides an explicit, parameter-free lattice Hamiltonian for a single chiral mode on a closed defect. The strengths of the paper are its concreteness: the Hamiltonian, mass profiles, Wilson term, and gamma matrix conventions are fully specified, so the numerical spectra are reproducible, and the localization densities in Figs. 4, 6, and 7 support the identification of defect-localized low-energy modes. The paper also correctly emphasizes the difference between two disconnected defects (Dirac pair) and a singly connected defect (unpaired Weyl), and the vortex-loop idea is a natural and testable proposal. However, the central claim currently rests on numerical evidence at a single lattice size with no direct measurement of the chirality quantum number, so the significance is conditional on additional verification.

major comments (4)
  1. [Sec. IV.B, Fig. 5] The central claim that the branch below E≈0.6 is an unpaired Weyl fermion requires the branch to remain gapless and single-chirality as L→∞, but only N=28 is presented. Please provide finite-size scaling: for several N, report the lowest eigenvalue, the gap to the next state, the number of near-zero modes, and the extent to which the branch crosses zero in the J4 variable. Because the quoted cutoff E≈0.6 is not far above the lowest bulk states, a gap opening at larger N cannot be excluded without this data.
  2. [Sec. IV.B, Eq. (11)] The identification of the branch as "right-handed" is inferred only from the positive slope of E versus <J4>; the chirality operator Γ_str=Γ1Γ2 is defined after Eq. (11) but never evaluated on the plotted eigenstates. Please compute <Γ_str> for all states on the Weyl branch and for the corresponding anti-vortex loop, and show that the branch consists of exactly one mode of definite chirality with no opposite-chirality partner below the cutoff. This is the direct test of the "unpaired Weyl" claim.
  3. [Sec. IV.B, Eq. (25)] The operator J4 used as the horizontal axis of Fig. 5 is defined about the lattice origin, while the vortex loop is centered at x2=x3=L/2 (Eq. 23) and is not invariant under rotations about the origin. Consequently <J4> is not a conserved quantum number for these states, and the figure is a scatter plot of expectation values of a non-symmetry operator. Please either use a loop-centered angular momentum (or another conserved quantum number), or report the variance/width of <J4> and justify that it still separates the chiral branch from other states.
  4. [Sec. IV.A, Fig. 3] The Dirac-fermion claim relies on the degeneracy structure in Fig. 3, but the text states that "every energy eigenvalue, except the lowest, is doubly degenerate" without specifying the degeneracy of the lowest eigenvalue at N=28 or how many modes lie below the cutoff. Please state the degeneracy of the lowest states and the number of near-zero modes; this is also needed to distinguish a single Dirac fermion from two nearly degenerate pairs at finite N.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Section headers] The section titles "CHIRAL EDGE ST A TES" contain a typo and should read "CHIRAL EDGE STATES."
  2. [Abstract and Conclusion] The claim that extending the results to Euclidean spacetime and to n>1 is "straightforward" is unsupported; please provide a brief argument or a reference, or soften the claim.
  3. [Eqs. (21)-(22)] The Fourier decomposition in x2 is valid only for the Dirac profile of Eqs. (18)-(19), where P is x2-independent; for the Weyl profile of Eq. (23) the full 3D Hamiltonian must be diagonalized. The text should state this explicitly to avoid confusion.
  4. [Figs. 1, 2, 4, and 6] The captions should state the axes and the color convention for vortices versus anti-vortices and for positive-versus-negative chirality; currently the color coding is not defined in the captions.
  5. [Fig. 3] Please specify in the caption that the spectrum is for N=28 and state the range and labeling of p2 (for example, p2 = kπ/N with k from -N to N-1) so the plot is self-contained.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the Weyl-like branch is a new numerical output of an unfitted Hamiltonian, not a restatement of its inputs.

full rationale

The paper's central claim is supported by an explicit numerical diagonalization of the lattice Hamiltonian Hstr (Eq. 9) with the mass profile given in Eq. 23. No parameter is fitted to the observed spectrum: the profile is specified a priori (with m1=m2=1, R=1, N=28), and the low-energy branch below E≈0.6 in Fig. 5 is an output of exact diagonalization, not an input. The construction is motivated by the prior disk-defect work [33] and by the infinite-lattice axion-string analysis [37], but the finite-lattice vortex-loop spectrum is computed independently in this paper. The self-citations supply background and a bookkeeping method (using the angular momentum J4 as a horizontal axis), not the claim itself. The absence of a direct Γ_str chirality measurement and the lack of finite-size scaling are verification/robustness concerns, not circularity: they do not make the derived spectrum equivalent to the input by construction. The claim is therefore self-contained as a numerical demonstration, with the noted extrapolation to the continuum limit left as an open check rather than as a fitted or definitional input.

Assumptions & free parameters 4 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The only free parameters are the standard Wilson-fermion couplings and the lattice size, all set to convenient values rather than fitted to data. The physically crucial input is the engineered mass profile (Eqs 18-23), which is a design choice, not a fitted quantity. No new particles, forces, or fields are introduced.

free parameters (4)
  • m1 (scalar mass amplitude) = 1
    Amplitude of the domain wall in ϕ1 (Eq 18). Set to 1, matching [37]; the conclusion notes varying m1 relative to the Wilson parameter can change the number of Weyl modes, so the result depends on this choice.
  • m2 (pseudoscalar mass amplitude) = 1
    Amplitude of the domain wall in ϕ2 (Eq 18). Set to 1; same parameter-dependence caveat as m1.
  • R (Wilson term coefficient) = 1
    Coefficient of the Wilson term W in Eq 10. Chosen to be 1; the number of localized Weyl modes and net chirality on lattice axion strings is known to depend on m/R [37].
  • N (lattice size per direction) = 28
    All spectra and densities are computed on an N=28^3 lattice; the paper does not study dependence on N.
assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption Callan-Harvey zero-mode index theorem for axion strings in the continuum
    The paper assumes that a 2π winding of the phase of ϕ around the defect guarantees a Weyl zero mode in the continuum, citing [1]; this motivates the lattice construction.
  • domain assumption Wilson-fermion lattice Hamiltonian (Eqs 9-10) is a valid lattice discretization of the continuum axion-string fermion action (Eq 2)
    The Wilson-like term W in Eq 10 is taken from [37]; the results rely on this specific discretization.
  • ad hoc to paper The branch in Fig 5 with positive slope in E vs <J4> is a right-handed Weyl mode without explicit measurement of Γ_str chirality
    The chirality of the modes is inferred from the winding of the defect and the slope of the dispersion, not from measuring the chirality operator Γ_str on the eigenstates.
  • ad hoc to paper Finite-size effects at N=28 do not change the qualitative spectrum
    No finite-size scaling is presented; the identification of a Weyl branch below E≈0.6 assumes this branch persists as N grows.

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abstract

Domain wall fermions use a $2n$-dimensional spacetime defect embedded in $(2n+1)$-dimensional spacetime to realize massless lattice Dirac fermions. Recent work has extended this idea to realize a single unpaired Weyl fermion in a finite lattice. Here, we realize the same using a $2n$-dimensional string defect embedded in $(2n+2)$-dimensional spacetime on a finite lattice for $n=1$. This string is a lattice version of the continuum axion string described in Callan-Harvey. Our results are obtained in a Hamiltonian formulation in Minkowski spacetime. Extending the results to Euclidean spacetime and to $n>1$ is straightforward. This work has applications to lattice chiral gauge theories and axion cosmology.

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