Bosonization, mass generation, and the pseudo Chern-Simons action

Abstract

We discuss several aspects of a generalization of the Chern-Simons action containing the pseudo-differential operator$\sqrt{-\square }$, which we shall call pseudo Chern-Simons (PCS). Firstly, we derive the PCS from the bosonization of free massive Dirac particles in (2+1)D in the limit when $m^2\ll p^2$, where $m$ is the fermion mass and $p$ is its momentum. In this regime, the whole bosonized action also has a modified Maxwell term, involving the same pseudo-differential operator. Furthermore, the large-mass $m^2\gg p^2$ regime is also considered. We also investigate the main effects of the PCS term into the Pseudo quantum electrodynamics (PQED), which describes the electromagnetic interactions between charged particles in (2+1)D. We show that the massless gauge field of PQED becomes massive in the presence of a PCS term, without the need of a Higgs mechanism. In the nonrelativistic limit, we show that the static potential has a repulsive term (given by the Coulomb potential) and an attractive part (given by a sum of special functions), whose competition generates bound states of particles with the same charge. Having in mind two-dimensional materials, we also conclude that the presence of a PCS term does not affect the renormalization either of the Fermi velocity and of the band gap in a Dirac-like material.

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