Cascading Multicriticality in Nonrelativistic Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

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  • Tom Griffin
  • Kevin John Torres Grosvenor
  • Petr Horava
  • Ziqi Yan
Without Lorentz invariance, spontaneous global symmetry breaking can lead to multicritical Nambu-Goldstone modes with a higher-order low-energy dispersion $\omega\sim k^n$ ($n=2,3,\ldots$), 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.
Original languageEnglish
JournalPhysical Review Letters
ISSN0031-9007
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 24 Jul 2015
Externally publishedYes

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5 pages, 1 figure

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  • hep-th, astro-ph.CO, cond-mat.supr-con, hep-ph, math-ph, math.MP

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