Low energy effective field theories of fermion liquids and mixed $U(1)\times {\mathbb{R}}^d$ anomaly

Abstract

In this paper we study gapless fermionic and bosonic systems in $d$-dimensional continuum space with $U(1)$ particle-number conservation and ${\mathbb{R}}^d$ translation symmetry. We write down low energy effective field theories for several gapless phases where $U(1)\times {\mathbb{R}}^d$ is viewed as internal symmetry. The $U(1)\times {\mathbb{R}}^d$ symmetry, when viewed as an internal symmetry, has a mixed anomaly, and the different effective field theories for different phases must have the same mixed anomaly. Such a mixed anomaly is proportional to the particle number density, and can be measured from the distribution of the total momentum ${\mathbf{k}}_{\text{tot}}$ for low energy many-body states (\ie how such a distribution is shifted by $U(1)$ symmetry twist $\mathbf{a}$), as well as some other low energy universal properties of the systems. In particular, we write down low energy effective field theory for Fermi liquid with infinite number of fields, in the presence of both real space magnetic field and $\mathbf{k}$-space "magnetic" field. The effective field theory also captures the mixed anomaly, which constraints the low energy dynamics, such as determine the volume of Fermi surface (which is another formulation of Luttinger-Ward-Oshikawa theorem).

14 pages and 3 figures. Added effective field theory for Fermi liquid with real space and k-space magnetic fields

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