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Novel Algebraic Boson Liquid phase with soft Graviton excitations
Strongly Correlated Electrons · Submitted 19 Feb 2006 · 22 references
Pith's reading: A bosonic lattice model on a 3D fcc lattice is claimed to realize a stable gapless algebraic liquid phase with emergent, softly dispersing graviton-like excitations.
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The paper claims
A bosonic lattice model on a 3D fcc lattice is claimed to realize a stable gapless algebraic liquid phase with emergent, softly dispersing graviton-like excitations.
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Core claim
The central claim is that the constructed fcc lattice model realizes a stable algebraic boson liquid phase with emergent graviton-like excitations. The paper states: "In this work a new type of stable algebraic boson liquid phase has been realized in a 3d lattice model." If correct, the phase has gapless collective modes with the same polarization and gauge symmetry as gravitons, a soft omega ~ k^2 dispersion, algebraic density correlations, and a topological order requiring 18 winding numbers.
Load-bearing premise
The stability of the Gaussian fixed point rests on the claim that all vertex operators are non-gauge-invariant and hence have zero expectation, and that no gauge-invariant instanton process gaps the system. This is not established; the paper does not analyze the compactness of the tensor gauge field or nonlocal monopole operators (paragraph after Eq. (10)). If this fails, the gapless phase is replaced by a gapped crystal or superfluid, invalidating the central claim.
Original abstract
A bosonic model on a 3 dimensional fcc lattice with emergent low energy excitations, with the same polarization and gauge symmetries as gravitons is constructed. The novel phase obtained is a stable gapless boson liquid phase, with algebraic boson density correlations. The stability of this phase is protected against the instanton effect and superfluidity by self-duality and large gauge symmetries. The gapless collective excitation of this phase closely resembles gravitons, although they have a soft $\omega\sim k^2$ dispersion relation. The dynamics of this novel phase is described by new set of Maxwell equations. This phase also possesses an intricate topological order, requiring 18 winding numbers to specify each topological sector.
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A bosonic model on a 3 dimensional fcc lattice with emergent low energy excitations, with the same polarization and gauge symmetries as gravitons is constructed. The novel phase obtained is a stable gapless boson liquid phase, with algebraic boson density correlations. The stability of this phase is protected against the instanton effect and superfluidity by self-duality and large gauge symmetries. The gapless collective excitation of this phase closely resembles gravitons, although they have a soft $\omega\sim k^2$ dispersion relation. The dynamics of this novel phase is described by new set of Maxwell equations. This phase also possesses an intricate topological order, requiring 18 winding numbers to specify each topological sector.
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| s0 | A bosonic model on a 3 dimensional fcc lattice with emergent low energy excitations, with the same polarization and gauge symmetries as gravitons is constructed. | contribution 0.88 | 0.90 | 0.21 | asserted 1.00 |
| s1 | The novel phase obtained is a stable gapless boson liquid phase, with algebraic boson density correlations. | result 0.94 | 0.88 | 0.43 | asserted 1.00 |
| s2 | The stability of this phase is protected against the instanton effect and superfluidity by self-duality and large gauge symmetries. | result 0.78 | 0.80 | 0.16 | asserted 1.00 |
| s3 | The gapless collective excitation of this phase closely resembles gravitons, although they have a soft $\omega\sim k^2$ dispersion relation. | result 0.95 | 0.84 | 0.26 | asserted 0.96 |
| s4 | The dynamics of this novel phase is described by new set of Maxwell equations. | result 0.73 | 0.80 | 0.11 | asserted 1.00 |
| s5 | This phase also possesses an intricate topological order, requiring 18 winding numbers to specify each topological sector. | result 0.99 | 0.82 | 0.10 | asserted 1.00 |
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The novel phase obtained is a stable gapless boson liquid phase, with algebraic boson density correlations.
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In particular, the $(m,n)$ vector charge models are self-dual for $m,n>0$, which, using extensions of arguments for the $(2,1)$ theory [ref] , implies stability of the theory.
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This intuition can be directly confirmed in the lattice models [ref] , where all such multi-body processes act as sources for Ampere's equation.
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We will omit the exact details of the microscopic derivation; interested readers are referred to the original papers Ref. [ref] .
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(See for instance the discussion in [ref] , or more general comments within an “emergent gravity” framework [ref] .) Moreover, the toy model is purely gravitational, and it will need to be investigated carefully just how to embed matter (and eventually the standard model of particle physics) within it [ref] .
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See [ref] for a partial list of works on tensor gauge theories.] A^I_t →A^I_t+∂_t α^I , A^I_xx→A^I_xx+Δ_x^2α^I , where the lattice difference operators are defined as Δ_x α(x) = α(x+1)-α(x) , Δ_x^2 α(x) = α(x+1)-2α(x)-α(x-1) .
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