2021/07/01 by Nabil Iqbal, Iqbal, Nabil, Kieran Macfarlane +1 · 3 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #Gauge (firearms) #Gauge symmetry #Gauge theory #Geometry #Global symmetry #Goldstone boson #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Holography #Homogeneous space #Mathematics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Spontaneous symmetry breaking #Symmetry (geometry) #Symmetry breaking #Theoretical physics #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2107.00373
published in arXiv (Cornell University) (Cornell University) · 35 pages + appendices, 9 figures
arxiv created 2021/07/01 · openalex publication_date 2021/07/01 · arxiv updated 2021/07/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
We study the realisation of higher-form symmetries in the holographic dual of gauge theories coupled to probe matter in the fundamental. We particularly focus on the dual of U(N) gauge theory coupled to fundamental matter. We demonstrate the existence of a continuous 1-form symmetry associated with the conservation of magnetic flux and show that this symmetry is spontaneously broken in the IR when the flavour degrees of freedom are gapped. We numerically compute the spectral function of the 2-form current and demonstrate the existence of the associated Goldstone mode. We compare to expectations at weak-coupling.