Published April 2, 1984
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Journal article
Spontaneous breaking of scale invariance and the ultraviolet fixed point in O(N)-symmetric (Phi36) theory
Creators
- 1. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510
Description
At large N, the etaphi6 theory is shown to possess a nontrivial ultraviolet fixed point. A new phase is found where asymptotic scale invariance is spontaneously broken and a dynamical mass is generated through dimensional transmutation. At the tricritical limit, the spontaneous breaking of an exact scale invariance at leading N results in the formation of a massless composite Goldstone mode, the dilaton. We compare these results to standard 1/N expansion and emphasize the nonperturbative nature of these phenomena
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Phys. Rev. Lett.
- Journal Volume
- 52
- Journal Issue
- 14
- Series
- Phys. Rev. Lett.
- Journal Page Range
- 1188-1191
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 15070756
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; O GROUPS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; RENORMALIZATION; SCALAR FIELDS; SCALE INVARIANCE; SYMMETRY BREAKING; ULTRAVIOLET DIVERGENCES; VARIATIONAL METHODS
- Descriptors DEC
- DYNAMICAL GROUPS; FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; LIE GROUPS; SYMMETRY GROUPS