Snowmass white paper: Generalized symmetries in quantum field theory and beyond

C Cordova, TT Dumitrescu, K Intriligator… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Symmetry plays a central role in quantum field theory. Recent developments include
symmetries that act on defects and other subsystems, and symmetries that are categorical …

Moduli spaces in CFT: large charge operators

G Cuomo, L Rastelli, A Sharon - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 - Springer
A bstract Using the large-charge expansion, we prove a necessary condition for a CFT to
exhibit conformal symmetry breaking, under the assumption that a continuous global …

Spontaneous symmetry breaking on surface defects

G Cuomo, S Zhang - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 - Springer
A bstract Coleman's theorem states that continuous internal symmetries cannot be
spontaneously broken in two-dimensional quantum field theories (QFTs). In this work we …

Precision microstate counting for the entropy of wrapped M5-branes

D Gang, N Kim, LA Pando Zayas - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020 - Springer
A bstract We study the large N expansion of twisted partition functions of 3d\(\mathcal {N}\)=
2 superconformal field theories arising from N M5-branes wrapped on a hyperbolic 3 …

A tale of exceptional 3d dualities

S Benvenuti - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019 - Springer
A bstract We consider interesting Seiberg dualities for Usp gauge theories with an
antisymmetric, 8 fundamentals and no superpotential. We reduce to three dimensions and …

Easy-plane QED3's in the large Nf limit

S Benvenuti, H Khachatryan - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019 - Springer
A bstract We consider Quantum Electrodynamics in 2+ 1 dimensions with N f fermionic or
bosonic flavors, allowing for interactions that respect the global symmetry U (N f/2) 2. There …

Sequential deconfinement in 3d = 2 gauge theories

S Benvenuti, I Garozzo, G Lo Monaco - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We consider 3d\(\mathcal {N}\)= 2 gauge theories with fundamental matter plus a
single field in a rank-2 representation. Using iteratively a process of “deconfinement” of the …

Dualities and phases of 3d SQCD

C Choi, M Roček, A Sharon - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018 - Springer
A bstract We study gauge theories with\(\mathcal {N}= 1\) supersymmetry in 2+ 1
dimensions. We start by calculating the 1-loop effective superpotential for matter in an …

USp (2Nc) SQCD3 with antisymmetric: dualities and symmetry enhancements

A Amariti, L Cassia - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019 - Springer
A bstract We study various aspects of the 4d/3d reduction of\(\mathcal {N}\)= 1 dualities
involving USp (2N c) gauge theories with 2N f fundamentals and one antisymmetric. We …

Three-dimensional gauge theories with supersymmetry enhancement

D Gang, M Yamazaki - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
We conjecture infrared emergent N= 4 supersymmetry for a class of three-dimensional N= 2
U (1) gauge theories coupled with a single chiral multiplet. One example is the case where …