Hohenberg-Mermin-Wagner-type theorems and dipole symmetry

Anton Kapustin and Lev Spodyneiko
Phys. Rev. B 106, 245125 – Published 16 December 2022

Abstract

We study the possibility of spontaneous symmetry breaking in systems with both charge and dipole symmetries. For d-dimensional systems at a positive temperature, we show that charge symmetry cannot be spontaneously broken for d4, while dipole symmetry cannot be spontaneously broken for d2. For T=0, we show that charge symmetry cannot be spontaneously broken for d2 if the compressibility is finite. We also show that continuum systems with a dipole symmetry have infinite inertial mass density.

  • Received 9 September 2022
  • Revised 2 December 2022
  • Accepted 5 December 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.106.245125

©2022 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied PhysicsStatistical Physics & Thermodynamics

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Anton Kapustin*

  • Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA

Lev Spodyneiko

  • Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA

  • *kapustin@theory.caltech.edu
  • lionspo@mit.edu

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Vol. 106, Iss. 24 — 15 December 2022

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