Boundaries and interfaces with localized cubic interactions in the O(N) model

Sabine Harribey (NORDITA, Stockholm University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Hannes Alfvéns väg 12, Stockholm, SE-106 91, Sweden) ; Igor Klebanov (Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA; Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA) ; Zimo Sun (Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA; Princeton Gravity Initiative, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA)

We explore a new approach to boundaries and interfaces in the O(N) model where we add certain localized cubic interactions. These operators are nearly marginal when the bulk dimension is 4 − ϵ, and they explicitly break the O(N) symmetry of the bulk theory down to O(N − 1). We show that the one-loop beta functions of the cubic couplings are affected by the quartic bulk interactions. For the interfaces, we find real fixed points up to the critical value N crit ≈ 7, while for N > 4 there are IR stable fixed points with purely imaginary values of the cubic couplings. For the boundaries, there are real fixed points for all N, but we don’t find any purely imaginary fixed points. We also consider the theories of M pairs of symplectic fermions and one real scalar, which have quartic OSp(1|2M) invariant interactions in the bulk. We then add the Sp(2M) invariant localized cubic interactions. The beta functions for these theories are related to those in the O(N) model via the replacement of N by 1 − 2M. In the special case M = 1, there are boundary or interface fixed points that preserve the OSp(1|2) symmetry, as well as other fixed points that break it.

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Published on:
04 October 2023
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Springer
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Journal of High Energy Physics , Volume 2023 (2023)
Issue 10
Pages 1-24
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2023)017
arXiv:
2307.00072
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