Pressure in Chern-Simons field theory to three-loop order

Yevgeny Kats

Roberto Emparan, M.A. VALLE BASAGOITI

We calculate the perturbative correction to every cluster coefficient of a gas of anyons through second order in the anyon coupling constant, as described by Chern-Simons field theory.

Jesper Lykke Jacobsen

V.Ya. Fainberg, Namik Kemal Pak, M. S. Shikakhwa

Starting from the non-relativistic field theory of spin- fermions interacting through the Abelian Chern-Simons term, we show that the quantized field theory leads, in the two-particle sector, to a two-particle Aharonov-Bohm-like Schrödinger equation with an antisymmetric (fermionic) wavefunction and without a delta function term. Calculating perturbatively the field-theoretic two-particle scattering amplitude up to one-loop order, we show that, in contrast to the scalar theory, the contribution of all the one-loop diagrams is finite and null, and that of the tree level ones coincides with the exact amplitude. Further, the Pauli matter-magnetic field interaction term is shown not to contribute to the amplitude to this order.

Hidenori Sonoda

Yizhi You, Trithep Devakul, S. L. Sondhi +1 more

Fracton order is an intriguing new type of order which shares many common features with topological order, such as topology-dependent ground-state degeneracies, and excitations with mutual statistics.However, it also has several distinctive geometrical aspects, such as excitations with restricted mobility, which naturally lead to effective descriptions in terms of higher-rank gauge fields.In this paper, we investigate possible effective field theories for three-dimensional fracton order, by presenting a general philosophy whereby topological-like actions for such higher-rank gauge fields can be constructed.Our approach draws inspiration from Chern-Simons and BF theories in 2+1 dimensions, and imposes constraints binding higher-rank gauge charge to higher-rank gauge flux.We show that the resulting fractonic Chern-Simons and BF theories reproduce many of the interesting features of their familiar two-dimensional cousins.We analyze one example of the resulting fractonic Chern-Simons theory in detail, and show that upon quantization it realizes a gapped fracton order with quasiparticle excitations that are mobile only along a subset of one-dimensional lines, and display a form of fractional self-statistics.The ground-state degeneracy of this theory is both topology and geometry dependent, scaling exponentially with the linear system size when the model is placed on a three-dimensional torus.By studying the resulting quantum theory on the lattice, we show that it describes a Z s generalization of the Chamon code.