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Persistent Spontaneous Time-Reversal Breaking
Michael Smolkin, Lev Yung
We provide an analytic realization of spontaneous parity and time-reversal breaking without thermal restoration in a local, unitary, ultraviolet-complete quantum field theory in $2…
Thermal Order in the Biconical Model
Michael Smolkin, Lev Yung
Thermal fluctuations are generally expected to destroy order and restore symmetries at sufficiently high temperatures. Recently, however, a family of scalar theories in dimen…
Tidal Response and Thermodynamics of Black Holes
Itamar Cohen, Dina Meylakh, Michael Smolkin +1
In this work, we revisit black hole Love numbers from two complementary perspectives. First, we develop a manifestly gauge-invariant framework that directly integrates out the shor…
Spontaneous Space-Time Parity Breaking Without Thermal Restoration
Bilal Hawashin, Michael M. Scherer, Michael Smolkin +1
We construct an ultraviolet-complete, local, and unitary quantum field theory in 2+1 dimensions that exhibits spontaneous breaking of space-time parity, persisting to arbitrarily h…
Renormalization Group in far-from-equilibrium states
Vladimir Rosenhaus, Michael Smolkin
We study renormalization group flows in far-from-equilibrium states. The study is made tractable by focusing on states that are spatially homogeneous, time-independent, and scale-i…
The defect b-theorem under bulk RG flows
Tom Shachar, Ritam Sinha, Michael Smolkin
It is known that for RG flows confined to a two-dimensional defect, where the bulk maintains its conformal nature, the coefficient of the Euler density in the defect's Weyl anomaly…