Dimensional crossover of effective orbital dynamics in polar distorted 3He-A: Transitions to anti-spacetime
arXiv:1710.07616 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.97.025018
Abstract
Topologically protected superfluid phases of He allow one to simulate many important aspects of relativistic quantum field theories and quantum gravity in condensed matter. Here we discuss a topological Lifshitz transition of the effective quantum vacuum in which the determinant of the tetrad field changes sign through a crossing to a vacuum state with a degenerate fermionic metric. Such a transition is realized in polar distorted superfluid He-A in terms of the effective tetrad fields emerging in the vicinity of the superfluid gap nodes: the tetrads of the Weyl points in the chiral A-phase of He and the degenerate tetrad in the vicinity of a Dirac nodal line in the polar phase of He. The continuous phase transition from the -phase to the polar phase, i.e. in the transition from the Weyl nodes to the Dirac nodal line and back, allows one to follow the behavior of the fermionic and bosonic effective actions when the sign of the tetrad determinant changes, and the effective chiral space-time transforms to anti-chiral "anti-spacetime". This condensed matter realization demonstrates that while the original fermionic action is analytic across the transition, the effective action for the orbital degrees of freedom (pseudo-EM) fields and gravity have non-analytic behavior. In particular, the action for the pseudo-EM field in the vacuum with Weyl fermions (A-phase) contains the modulus of the tetrad determinant. In the vacuum with the degenerate metric (polar phase) the nodal line is effectively a family of d Dirac fermion patches, which leads to a non-analytic QED action in the vicinity of the Dirac line.
arXiv comment9 pages, 2 figures
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