Symmetric Mass Generation

Abstract

The most well-known mechanism for fermions to acquire a mass is the Nambu-Goldstone-Anderson-Higgs mechanism, i.e. after a spontaneous symmetry breaking, a bosonic field that couples to the fermion mass term condenses, which grants a mass gap for the fermionic excitation. In the last few years, it was gradually understood that there is a new mechanism of mass generation for fermions without involving any symmetry breaking within an anomaly-free symmetry group. This new mechanism is generally referred to as the "Symmetric Mass Generation (SMG)." It is realized that the SMG has deep connections with interacting topological insulator/superconductors, symmetry-protected topological states, perturbative local and non-perturbative global anomaly cancellations, and deconfined quantum criticality. It has strong implications for the lattice regularization of chiral gauge theories. This article defines the SMG, summarizes current numerical results, introduces a novel unifying theoretical framework (including the parton-Higgs and the s-confinement mechanisms, as well as the symmetry-extension construction), and overviews various features and applications of SMG.

arXiv comment33 pages. An invited overview of Symmetric Mass Generation. Introduce a novel unifying theoretical framework. We thank Cenke Xu for initiating this project

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