2025/03/04 by Cappelli, Andrea, Villa, Riccardo
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2503.02801
We discuss two methods for relating bosonic and fermionic relativistic field theories in 2+1 dimensions, the Z2f gauging and the flux attachment. The first is primarily a correspondence between topological theories. It amounts to summing over fermionic spin structures, as is familiar in two-dimensional conformal theories. Its inverse map, fermionization, shows how spin structures and Z2f fermion parity emerge from a bosonic theory equipped with a dual Z2(1) generalized symmetry. The second method,flux attachment, gives spin and statistics to charged particles by coupling them to a Chern-Simons theory, and provides the basis for the Abelian dualities. We illustrate the two bosonizations with explicit results in a solvable semiclassical conformal theory, and show their differences and interplays with particle-vortex dualities. We employ the so-called loop model, which can describe general infrared critical points in 2+1 dimensions in the semiclassical limit. We also combine the two bosonizations to obtain further duality relations. By applying Z2f gauging to the Dirac-boson and Majorana-boson flux-attachment dualities, we find new relations between bosonic theories.