It is possible to characterize certain states of matter by properties of their edge states. This implies a notion of "surface-only models": models which can only be regularized at the edge of a higher-dimensional system. After incorporating the fermion-doubling results of Nielsen and Ninomiya into this framework, we employ this idea to identify new obstructions to symmetry-preserving regulators of quantum field theory. We focus on an example which forbids regulated models of Maxwell theory with manifest electromagnetic duality symmetry.
We demonstrate that 3+1-dimensional quantum electrodynamics with fermionic charges, fermionic monopoles, and fermionic dyons arises at the edge of a 4 + 1-dimensional gapped state with short-range entanglement. This state cannot be adiabatically connected to a product state, even in the absence of any symmetry. This provides independent evidence for the obstruction found by [1] to a 3 + 1-dimensional short-distance completion of all-fermion electrodynamics. The nontriviality of the bulk is demonstrated by a novel fermion number anomaly.
We study Schrödinger invariant field theories (nonrelativistic conformal field theories) in the large charge (particle number) sector. We do so by constructing the effective field theory (EFT) for a Goldstone boson of the associated U (1) symmetry in a harmonic potential. This EFT can be studied semi-classically in a large charge expansion. We calculate the dimensions of the lowest lying operators, as well as correlation functions of charged operators. We find universal behavior of three point function in large charge sector. We comment on potential applications to fermions at unitarity and critical anyon systems.the map is more akin to the (0 + 1) dimensional CFT.2 Here and also subsequently, we will be working in non-relativistic "natural" units of m = = 1The additional charge of Φ| is required for the correlator to be overall neutral and therefore nonvanishing.
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