Multicritical Symmetry Breaking and Naturalness of Slow Nambu-Goldstone Bosons

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  • Tom Griffin
  • Kevin John Torres Grosvenor
  • Petr Horava
  • Ziqi Yan
We investigate spontaneous global symmetry breaking in the absence of Lorentz invariance, and study technical Naturalness of Nambu-Goldstone (NG) modes whose dispersion relation exhibits a hierarchy of multicritical phenomena with Lifshitz scaling and dynamical exponents $z>1$. For example, we find NG modes with a technically natural quadratic dispersion relation which do not break time reversal symmetry and are associated with a single broken symmetry generator, not a pair. The mechanism is protected by an enhanced `polynomial shift' symmetry in the free-field limit.
Original languageEnglish
JournalPhysical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology)
Volume88
Issue number10
ISSN1550-7998
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 27 Aug 2013
Externally publishedYes

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5 pages, 1 figure; v2: minor typos corrected, references added

    Research areas

  • hep-th, cond-mat.str-el, cond-mat.supr-con, gr-qc, hep-ph

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