2025/04/22 by Nabil Iqbal, Iqbal, Nabil, Navonil Neogi +1
Engineering · Materials Science · #Copper Interconnects and Reliability #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Material Properties and Processing #Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el) #Vibration and Dynamic Analysis
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2504.16017
openalex publication_date 2025/04/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In Abelian gauge theories with dynamical matter, Wilson lines can end on the insertions of charged fields. We study the endpoints of Wilson lines in large N bosonic QED3. at its critical point. We first study the stability of an infinite Wilson line in the \mathbbCPN-1 model by computing the appropriate functional determinant at large N. We also compute the conformal dimension of the lowest-dimension endpoint of the line to first order in N-1. Along the way we calculate the field-strength tensor Fμν in the presence of the line with endpoint and discuss a state-operator correspondence for the endpoints, as well as the existence of an OPE that allows two open-ended Wilson lines to be glued together into a single line.