On the Higgs-Confinement Complementarity
arXiv:1506.00862
Abstract
It has been noticed long ago that in Higgs models with `complete symmetry breaking' one can move from the confinement to the Higgs regime without crossing a phase boundary, a fact sometimes called referred to as `complementarity'. In a recent paper some doubt was raised about the correctness of the mathematics underlying this fact and it was claimed that the supposed `flaw' would resolve the `paradox' seen in this complementarity. Here we briefly revisit the facts both from a mathematical and a physical point of view and point out that (a) there is no paradox and (b) there is no flaw in the mathematical reasoning.
5 pages
References in corpus (1)
Cited by in corpus (4)
- Phase structure of electroweak vacuum in a strong magnetic field: the lattice results
- Gauge invariance and the physical spectrum in the two-Higgs-doublet model
- Two No-Go Theorems on Superconductivity
- Exploring the 3D Ising gauge-Higgs model in exact Coulomb gauge and with a gauge-invariant substitute for Landau gauge