Cascading Multicriticality in Nonrelativistic Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
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Author(s)
Griffin, T
Grosvenor, KT
Horava, P
Yan, Z
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Without Lorentz invariance, spontaneous global symmetry breaking can lead to multicritical Nambu-Goldstone modes with a higher-order low-energy dispersion ω∼kn (n=2,3,…), whose naturalness is protected by polynomial shift symmetries. Here, we investigate the role of infrared divergences and the nonrelativistic generalization of the Coleman-Hohenberg-Mermin-Wagner (CHMW) theorem. We find novel cascading phenomena with large hierarchies between the scales at which the value of n changes, leading to an evasion of the “no-go” consequences of the relativistic CHMW theorem.
Date Issued
2015-12-09
Date Acceptance
2015-07-28
Citation
Physical Review Letters, 2015, 115 (24)
ISSN
1079-7114
Publisher
American Physical Society
Journal / Book Title
Physical Review Letters
Volume
115
Issue
24
Copyright Statement
© 2015 American Physical Society
Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Physics
GOLDSTONE BOSONS
2 DIMENSIONS
General Physics
02 Physical Sciences
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
241601