Wednesday, May 1, 2013

1112.5303 (Cenke Xu et al.)

Nonperturbative effects of Topological Theta-term    [PDF]

Cenke Xu, Andreas W. W. Ludwig
We study the effects of a topological Theta-term on 2+1 dimensional principal chiral models (PCM), which are nonlinear sigma models defined on Lie group manifolds. We find that when Theta = pi, the nature of the disordered phase of the principal chiral model is strongly affected by the topological term: it is either a gapless conformal field theory, or it is gapped and two-fold degenerate. The result of our paper can be used to analyze the boundary states of three dimensional symmetry protected topological phases.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.5303

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