Publications associées à Self-conjugate representation SU(3) chains

Haldane Gap of the Three-Box Symmetric SU(3) Chain

Frédéric Mila, Samuel Gozel, Pierre Marcel Nataf

Motivated by the recent generalization of the Haldane conjecture to SU(3) chains [Lajko et al., Nucl. Phys. B924, 508 (2017)] according to which a Haldane gap should be present for symmetric representations if the number of boxes in the Young diagram is a ...

2020

Time-reversal symmetry breaking Abelian chiral spin liquid in Mott phases of three-component fermions on the triangular lattice

Frédéric Mila, Karlo Penc, Pierre Marcel Nataf, Carolin Boos, Miklos Lajko

We provide numerical evidence in favor of spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking and the concomitant appearance of an Abelian chiral spin liquid for three-component fermions on the triangular lattice described by an SU(3) symmetric Hubbard model with hopping ...

2020

Novel families of SU(N) AKLT states with arbitrary self-conjugate edge states

Frédéric Mila, Samuel Gozel

Using the Matrix Product State framework, we generalize the Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki (AKLT) construction to one-dimensional spin liquids with global color SU(N) symmetry, finite correlation lengths, and edge states that can belong to any self-conjugate ...

2019

Chiral charge dynamics in Abelian gauge theories at finite temperature

Mikhail Chapochnikov, Adrien Florio, Daniel Garcia Figueroa

We study fermion number non-conservation (or chirality breaking) in Abelian gauge theories at finite temperature. We consider the presence of a chemical potential mu for the fermionic charge, and monitor its evolution with real-time classical lattice simul ...

Springer Nature2019

Conformal symmetry: Towards the link between the Fermi and the Planck scales

Mikhail Chapochnikov, Andrey Shkerin

If the mass of the Higgs boson is put to zero, the classical Lagrangian of the Standard Model (SM) becomes conformally invariant (CI). Taking into account quantum non-perturbative QCD effects violating CI leads to electroweak symmetry breaking with the sca ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2018

Chiral gravitational waves from chiral fermions

Eray Sabancilar

We report on a new mechanism that leads to the generation of primordial chiral gravitational waves, and hence, the violation of the parity symmetry in the Universe. We show that nonperturbative production of fermions with a definite helicity is accompanied ...

American Physical Society2017

A variational investigation of the SU(N) Heisenberg model in antisymmetric irreducible representations

Jérôme Dufour

Motivated by recent experimental progress in the context of ultra-cold multi-colour fermionic atoms in optical lattices, this thesis investigates the properties of the antiferromagnetic SU(N) Heisenberg models with fully antisymmetric irreducible represent ...

EPFL2016

Large field excursions and approximate discrete symmetries from a clockwork axion

Riccardo Rattazzi

We present a renormalizable theory of scalars in which the low-energy effective theory contains a pseudo-Goldstone boson with a compact field space of 2 pi F and an approximate discrete shift symmetry Z(Q) with Q >> 1, yet the number of fields in the theor ...

American Physical Society2016

Zoology of condensed matter: framids, ordinary stuff, extra-ordinary stuff

Riccardo Rattazzi

We classify condensed matter systems in terms of the spacetime symmetries they spontaneously break. In particular, we characterize condensed matter itself as any state in a Poincare-invariant theory that spontaneously breaks Lorentz boosts while preserving ...

Springer Nature2015

Effective Lagrangian Perspectives on Electroweak Symmetry Breaking

Andrea Thamm

We use an effective Lagrangian approach to address the question of the dynamics of electroweak symmetry breaking in the Standard Model (SM) and its relation to the hierarchy problem. Composite Higgs models provide a solution by describing the recently disc ...

EPFL2014

Higgs couplings in composite models

Francesco Riva, Riccardo Torre, Ennio Salvioni

We study Higgs couplings in the composite Higgs model based on the coset SO(5)/SO(4). We show that the couplings to gluons and photons are insensitive to the elementary-composite mixings and thus not affected by light fermionic resonances. Moreover, at lea ...

American Physical Society2013

Long-Range Magnetic Fields in the Ground State of the Standard Model Plasma

Mikhail Chapochnikov, Alexey Boyarsky, Oleg Ruchayskiy

In thermal equilibrium the ground state of the plasma of Standard Model particles is determined by temperature and exactly conserved combinations of baryon and lepton numbers. We show that at nonzero values of the global charges a translation invariant and ...

American Physical Society2012

Strong, weak and flavor scalar triplets for the CDF Wjj anomaly

Duccio Pappadopulo, Riccardo Torre

A model describing the 4.1 sigma Wjj anomaly observed by the CDF experiment at the Tevatron collider is introduced. It features new scalar particles which are charged both under the SU(3)(C) and the SU(2)(L) gauge groups and which couple to pairs of quarks ...

2012

On the effect of resonances in composite Higgs phenomenology

Riccardo Rattazzi, Duccio Pappadopulo, Roberto Contino

We consider a generic composite Higgs model based on the coset SO(5)= SO(4) and study its phenomenology beyond the leading low-energy effective lagrangian approximation. Our basic goal is to introduce in a controllable and simple way the lowest-lying, poss ...

Springer Nature2011

The other natural two Higgs doublet model

Jan Dalibor Mrazek, Riccardo Rattazzi, Andrea Wulzer

We characterize models where electroweak symmetry breaking is driven by two light Higgs doublets arising as pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons of new dynamics above the weak scale. They represent the simplest natural two Higgs doublet alternative to supersymmet ...

2011

Scale-Invariant Models of Gravity and Particle Physics and their Cosmological Implications

Daniel Zenhäusern

Currently, the best theoretical description of fundamental matter and its gravitational interaction is given by the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics and Einstein's theory of General Relativity (GR). These theories contain a number of seemingly unrel ...

EPFL2011

Composite Higgs as a Viable Scenario for Electro-Weak Symmetry Breaking : Some Prospects in next-to-minimal Model Building and Model Specific Experimental Signatures

Jan Dalibor Mrazek

This thesis presents a general discussion of the Composite Higgs scenario of Electro-Weak Symmetry Breaking (EWSB). We start by reviewing the Standard Model of Electro-Weak interaction, discussing its experimental tests and conceptual pitfalls. Emphasis is ...

EPFL2011

Fine structure of exciton complexes in high-symmetry quantum dots: Effects of symmetry breaking and symmetry elevation

Marc-André Dupertuis, Elyahou Kapon, Daniel Oberli, Alok Rudra

Quantum dots (QDs) of high symmetry (e.g., C3v) have degenerate bright exciton states, unlike QDs of C2v symmetry, making them intrinsically suitable for the generation of entangled photon pairs. Deviations from C3v symmetry are detected in real QDs by pol ...

American Physical Society2010

Anomalous solitons

Matthias Schmid

Solitons are stable, non-singular solutions to the classical equations of motion of non-linear field theory. Their energy is localized and finite and their shape remains unaltered during propagation. For this reason they represent particle-like states in f ...

EPFL2008

Chiral Asymmetry from a 5D Higgs Mechanism

Mikhail Chapochnikov

An intriguing feature of the Standard Model is that the representations of the unbroken gauge symmetries are vector-like whereas those of the spontaneously broken gauge symmetries are chiral. Here we provide a toy model which shows that a natural explanati ...

Springer Nature2007