Published May 15, 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Emergent gravity at a Lifshitz point from a Bose liquid on the lattice

  • 1. Theoretical Physics Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA, and Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-8568 (Japan)
  • 2. Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
  • 3. Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 (United States)

Description

We propose a model with quantum bosons on the fcc lattice, which has a stable algebraic Bose liquid phase at low energy. We show that this phase is described by emergent quantum gravity at the Gaussian z=3 Lifshitz fixed point in 3+1 dimensions. The stability of this algebraic Bose liquid phase is guaranteed by the gauge symmetry of gravitons and self-duality of the low-energy field theory. By tuning one parameter in the lattice boson model we can drive a phase transition between the z=3 Lifshitz gravity and another algebraic Bose liquid phase, described by gravity at the z=2 Lifshitz point.

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
81
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
p. 104033-104033.8
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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